[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to all for the opinions. Just to clarify, I have nothing > against testing. I like doing it. I catch a lot of bugs! I dislike the > formality of the unittest module. It's unyielding. It makes testing > difficult unless your code is written with testing in mind from the > start.
There is some advantage in forcing you to write code with testing in mind. It often works out that the same things which make code easy to test (clean interfaces, little cross-class dependency, etc), also make the code easy to maintain and modify later. Compared to some other testing frameworks I've used, unittest is pretty lightweight. That's not to say that for small projects, even the small amount of baggage it brings with it may feel heavy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list