On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> wrote:.
I would like to work with you or someone else who is interested on an alternative PEP for a separate, simpler test module using the py.test syntax. That is much simpler to learn and use. Instead of self.assertIsNot and whatnot, you write: assert a is not b No need for tons of word-by-word spellings on things we already have syntax for. Almost anyone who has used py.test can attest its syntax is much more natural, easy to learn, easy to both read and write, and is much lighter weight. I think some variant of py.test could be done that is compatable with unittest and the did not have the "magic" present in earlier versions of py.test. I wrote a recipe (somewhat rough and incomplete) that shows how easily this could be done:
Bringing the total amount of test modules in the stdlib to 3. OWTDI indeed. Anyway, I don't think something like needs to be (re)written. nose[1] is already an excellent implementation of this that I would like to see in the stdlib. [1] http://www.somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."