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.
>
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