[pytest-dev] how to handle 'parameterize' misspelling

[Jasmine Sandhu]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/463/add-alias-for-parametrize-or-provide
>
> It is, I think, a relatively common and easy error for someone to type
> 'pytest.mark.parameterize' instead of 'pytest.mark.parametrize'. At the
> moment doing so (wrongly putting an extra 'e') results in an error like*
> "fixture 'arg' not found" *which is not very revealing as to what the
> problem actually is.
>
> Two reasonable options would be
> 1) Treat parameterize as an alias of parametrize, so they behave
> identically
> 2) Check for the misspelling and raise a specific error about it
>
> What are people's thoughts about the best approach?
>

I've done this many, many times though now I've used it enough to know what
to check for first when I see the error.

1) is easier on the user but better to have it spelled and used correctly
so perhaps 2) is better. Either way, this would be a good fix.

jasmine



>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
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