Why not just use pytest?
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 7:12:02 AM UTC-4, David Shawley wrote: > > Hi everyone and good morning to some of you, > > Since asyncio and the async/await syntax are both part of Python, I think > that we should extend TestCase to support it. The simplest solution that > I can think of is to create unittest.AsyncTestCase sub-class with the > following extensions: > > - create a new event loop and install it in AsyncTestCase.run > - make it possible for setUp, tearDown, and test methods to be async > by calling asyncio.iscoroutinefunction > > I wrote my own in a local test before noticing that Martin Richard had > already written and published asynctest [1]. Since then I found the > following projects as well: > > - https://github.com/kwarunek/aiounittest > - https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-asyncio > > I think that the community as a whole would benefit from basic support in > unittest for async/await test "user methods". I am personally fond of the > approach of extending unittest.TestCase in asynctest [2] over some of the > other approaches. > > Is this something that we want in our Standard Library? > > - dave > -- > [1]: https://github.com/Martiusweb/asynctest > [2]: https://github.com/Martiusweb/asynctest/blob/master/asynctest/case.py >
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