I am writing a test for lmtp runner as follows:

def test_function(self): self._lmtp.sendmail(.........) messages = get_queue_messages('in') self.assertEqual(len(messages), 1)

self._lmtp.sendmail(.........)
messages = get_queue_messages('in')
self.assertEqual(len(messages), 1)

and the test passes successfully , but shouldn't the second self.assertEqual( ) fail because number of messages in 'in' should now be 2 . Might be, self._lmtp is creating new lmtp instance each time it executes sendmail( ) , or is there something else ?

Cheers, Sandesh