[Python-Dev] unittest.TestSuite holding references to unittest.TestCase instances too long

[Matt McClure]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

> unittest itself has changed so extensively since the last release of
> unittest2 that I'm not sure whether a completely fresh start for unittest2
> might be needed. (Although I intend to do another bugfix release of this
> version as well.)
>
> Making unittest2 will involve:
>
>         * Taking the Python 3 unittest and porting code plus tests to run
> on python 2
> [ ... ]
>

I took a different approach and simply applied the patch of diffs[1] from
the Python 3 issue to the unittest2 tip.

There was a small amount of renaming "unittest" to "unittest2" required,
but other than that, the patch applied pretty cleanly, and seems to pass
the unit tests and avoid the ever-increasing memory problem in my private
test suite.

Do you think it's sufficient to port just this feature? Or if not, what am
I missing that requires resyncing more of unittest2 with the changes from
Python 3?

Is Google Code[2] still the right place for unittest2 issues? I found that
via PyPI[3].

It looks like there have been a lot of commits in the unittest2 repository
since the last PyPI release (2010-07-12 -- 0.5.1). Would you plan to do
another PyPI release of unittest2 with this feature? Or would you recommend
using unittest2 from the repository to get it? Or am I missing a more
recent packaged release somewhere else?

[1]:
https://bitbucket.org/matthewlmcclure/unittest2/compare/issue11798-tip..issue11798-base#diff
[2]: https://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/issues/detail?id=76&sort=-id
[3]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2

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Matt McClure
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