[Python-ideas] async unittest.TestCase

[Neil Girdhar]

Why not just use pytest?

On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 7:12:02 AM UTC-4, David Shawley wrote:
>
> Hi everyone and good morning to some of you,
>
> Since asyncio and the async/await syntax are both part of Python, I think
> that we should extend TestCase to support it.  The simplest solution that
> I can think of is to create unittest.AsyncTestCase sub-class with the
> following extensions:
>
>  - create a new event loop and install it in AsyncTestCase.run
>  - make it possible for setUp, tearDown, and test methods to be async
>    by calling asyncio.iscoroutinefunction
>
> I wrote my own in a local test before noticing that Martin Richard had
> already written and published asynctest [1].  Since then I found the
> following projects as well:
>
>  - https://github.com/kwarunek/aiounittest
>  - https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-asyncio
>
> I think that the community as a whole would benefit from basic support in
> unittest for async/await test "user methods".  I am personally fond of the
> approach of extending unittest.TestCase in asynctest [2] over some of the
> other approaches.
>
> Is this something that we want in our Standard Library?
>
> - dave
> --
> [1]: https://github.com/Martiusweb/asynctest
> [2]: https://github.com/Martiusweb/asynctest/blob/master/asynctest/case.py
>
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