On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:31 AM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 August 2017 at 08:20, rym...@gmail.com <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > TBH you're completely right. Every time I see someone using unittest > > andItsHorriblyUnpythonicNames, I want to kill a camel. > > > > Sometimes, though, I feel like part of the struggle is the alternative. > If > > you dislike unittest, but pytest is too "magical" for you, what do you > use? > > Many Python testing tools like nose are just test *runners*, so you still > > need something else. In the end, many just end up back at unittest, maybe > > with nose on top. > > A snake_case helper API for unittest that I personally like is > hamcrest, since that also separates out the definition of testing > assertions from being part of a test case: > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyHamcrest > > Introducing such a split natively into unittest is definitely > attractive, but would currently be difficult due to the way that some > features like self.maxDiff and self.subTest work. > > However, PEP 550's execution contexts may provide a way to track the > test state reliably that's independent of being a method on a test > case instance, in which case it would become feasible to offer a more > procedural interface in addition to the current visibly > object-oriented one. > If you have time, could you expand on that a little bit? > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > 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/ > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "python-ideas" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-ideas/cF_4IlJq698/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > python-ideas+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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