[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

[Olemis Lang]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> writes:
>
>> The next 'big' change to unittest will (may?) be the introduction of
>> class and module level setUp and tearDown. This was discussed on
>> Python-ideas and Guido supported them. They can be useful but are also
>> very easy to abuse (too much shared state, monolithic test classes and
>> modules). Several authors of other Python testing frameworks spoke up
>> *against* them, but several *users* of test frameworks spoke up in
>> favour of them. ;-)
>
> I think the perceived need for these is from people trying to use the
> ‘unittest’ API for test that are *not* unit tests.
>

I dont't think so. I'll try to explain what I consider is a real use
case tomorrow ...

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