Re: [Python-ideas] Adding a test discovery into Python

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

I'm strongly for offering tools that make it easier to write the tests in the first place. The syntax used by py.test and nose is vastly superior to the one used by unittest.py, a module that is more Javathonic than Pythonic. [...] Factoid of the Day: In Py2.7's test_datetime module, the phrase self.assertEqual occurs 578 times.

Doesn't that just scream for using a doctest instead? The interpreter driven type-think-copy-paste pattern works pretty well for these things. Stefan