On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Holger Krekel wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> In my opinion assert should be avoided completely anywhere else than >>>> in the tests. If this is a wrong statement, please let me know why :) >>> >>> I would turn that around. The assert statement should not be used in >>> unit tests; unit tests should use self.assertXyzzy() always. >> >> FWIW this is only true for the unittest module/pkg policy for writing and >> organising tests. There are other popular test frameworks like nose and >> pytest >> which promote using plain asserts within writing unit tests and also allow to >> write tests in functions. And judging from my tutorials and others places >> many >> people appreciate the ease of using asserts as compared to learning tons >> of new methods. YMMV. > > I've also observed that people appreciate using asserts with nose.py and > py.test.
They must not appreciate -O. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
