Art of Unit Testing

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.998013446.19337.python-list at python.org>,
Jesse W <jessw at loop.com> wrote:
>
>	I have read about, and downloaded, some of the Python unit 
>testing frameworks available, but I have never yet been able to 
>actually use any one of them to implement actual _tests_. I wish to 
>use unit tests(at least, the kind of unit tests used in Extreme 
>Programming(I think))because one of the claims of aficionados of 
>this approach is that it helps them get over the problem of how to 
>make programs that can't be kept in mind as a whole. This amazing 
>feat is done, say the aficionados, by writing the unit tests out before 
>the code.  I have both great hope and significant doubts about this 
>method.

One other suggestion nobody else has mentioned: use doctest.py instead.
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