On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Michael Foord
The Plugin Class ================
A sometimes-more-convenient way of creating plugins is to subclass the ``unittest2.events.Plugin`` class. By default subclassing ``Plugin`` will auto-instantiate the plugin and store the instance in a list of loaded plugins.
Each plugin has a ``register()`` method that auto-hooks up all methods whose names correspond to events. Plugin classes may also provide ``configSection`` and ``commandLineSwitch`` class attributes which simplifies enabling the plugin through the command line and making available a section from the configuration file(s).
What about using ABCs here instead ? The big advantage is that you don't force people to subclass your Plugin base class, and you get a registration mechanism for free. They would be able to explicitly register any class using : from unittest2.events import Plugin Plugin.register(MySuperPlugin) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org