On Mon, Mar 14 2011, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
[...]
>> This whole XUnit style unit testing thing is not really necessary in
>> the Python world.
>
> Why? It is very much part of python world. It is part of the stdlib,
> because it is so easy to use.
There are lots of libraries in the standard library that are not really
pythonic and which are mirrors of a corresponding C library.
> There are easier frameworks like py.test which do a lot of
> metaprogramming magic and make the testing fun, but that does not
> count of removing xUnit style test, which can imbibe in you pattern to
> think about tests.
It's probably just my personal preference but I'd like a few functions
like.
def test_foo():
x = do_foo()
assert x == "some true value"
in a file which I could just run rather than subclassing and doing all
that which Xunit demands. Python is about less boilerplate and more
simplicity isn't it?
unittest2 is getting better but I think Xunit is a more a child of
Smalltalk and Java than Python.
Options are always a good thing though and YMMV.
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