[Python-ideas] Please consider adding context manager versions of setUp/tearDown to unittest.TestCase

[Neil Girdhar]

Like you, I used nose and then switched to pytest.  The reason I proposed
this for unittest is because pytest and nose and (I think) most of the
other testing frameworks inherit from unittest, so improving unittest has
downstream benefits.  I may nevertheless propose this to the pytest people
if this doesn't make it into unittest.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:26 PM Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> anyway, that's enough ranting.....
>>
>
> Got carried away with the ranting, and didn't flesh out my point.
>
> My point is that unittest is a very static, not very pythonic framework --
> if you are productive with it, great, but I don't think it's worth trying
> to add more pythonic niceties to. Chances are pytest (Or nose2?) may
> already have them, or, if not, the simpler structure of pytest tests make
> them easier to write yourself.
>
> -CHB
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