Failing unittest Test cases

[Paul Rubin]

skip at pobox.com writes:
> Got any ideas how that is to be accomplished short of jiggering the
> names so they sort in the order you want them to run?

How about with a decorator instead of the testFuncName convention,
i.e. instead of 

   def testJiggle():   # "test" in the func name means it's a test case
      ...

use:

    @test
    def jiggletest():  # nothing special about the name "jiggletest"
       ...

The hack of searching the module for functions with special names was
always a big kludge and now that Python has decorators, that seems
like a cleaner way to do it.

In the above example, the 'test' decorator would register the
decorated function with the test framework, say by appending it to a
list.  That would make it trivial to run them in code order.