Folks, this has come up before, but: please don't post through Google Groups, as it breaks everyone else's ability to easily reply to the entire mailing list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> Date: 22 August 2017 at 15:32 Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Please consider adding context manager versions of setUp/tearDown to unittest.TestCase To: Neil Girdhar <mistersh...@gmail.com> Cc: python-ideas <python-id...@googlegroups.com> On 21 August 2017 at 11:32, Neil Girdhar <mistersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > This question describes an example of the problem: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8416208/in-python-is-there-a-good-idiom-for-using-context-managers-in-setup-teardown. > You want to invoke a context manager in your setup/tearing-down, but the > easiest way to do that is to override run, which seems ugly. Using context managers when you can't use a with statement is one of the main use cases for contextlib.ExitStack(): def setUp(self): self._resource_stack = stack = contextlib.ExitStack() self._resource = stack.enter_context(MyResource()) def tearDown(self): self._resource_stack.close() I posted that as an additional answer to the question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8416208/in-python-is-there-a-good-idiom-for-using-context-managers-in-setup-teardown/45809502#45809502 Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/