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

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>

not really -- they extend unittest -- in the sense that their test runners
can be used with unittest TestCases -- but they don't depend on unitest.

so improving unittest has downstream benefits.
>

only to those using unittest -- a lot of folks do use pytest or nose
primarily as a test runner, so those folks would benefit.

I may nevertheless propose this to the pytest people if this doesn't make
> it into unittest.
>

Anyway, I'm just being a curmudgeon -- if folks think it would be useful
and not disruptive, then why not?

-CHB







> 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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