Like you, I used nose and then switched to pytest. The reason I proposed
this for unittest is because pytest and nose and (I think) most of the
other testing frameworks inherit from unittest, so improving unittest has
downstream benefits. I may nevertheless propose this to the pytest people
if th
Getting kind of OT, but:
... pytest is too "magical" for you,
>
I do get confused a bit sometimes, but for the most part, I simple don't
use the magic -- pytest does a great job of making the simple things simple.
what do you use? Many Python testing tools like nose are just test
> *runners*, s
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> anyway, that's enough ranting.
>
Got carried away with the ranting, and didn't flesh out my point.
My point is that unittest is a very static, not very pythonic framework --
if you are productive with it, great, but I don't think it's w
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 06:20:50PM -0400, rym...@gmail.com wrote:
> TBH you're completely right. Every time I see someone using unittest
> andItsHorriblyUnpythonicNames, I want to kill a camel.
If your only complaint about unittest is that
you_miss_writing_underscores_between_all_the_words, then
Knowing nothing about the JavaScript ecosystem (other than that leftpad is
apparently not a joke and everything needs more jQuery), what are the
leagues-above testing libraries?
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:20 PM, rym...@gmail.com wrote:
> TBH you're completely right. Every time I see someone using
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 too
** Caution: cranky curmudgeonly opinionated comment ahead: **
unitest is such an ugly Java-esque static mess of an API that there's
really no point in trying to clean it up and make it more pythonic -- go
off and use pytest and be happier.
-CHB
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Nick Coghlan w
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 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.
>
Mentioning this is probably going to do nothing, especially for new, future
On 22 August 2017 at 15:34, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 21 August 2017 at 11:32, Neil Girdhar 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 invok
