New submission from Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com>:
The current example[0] uses assertTrue(element in self.seq) but it would be
better to use assertIn instead. The whole example could be changed to
something simpler that uses only the assertTrue/assertEqual/assertRaises
methods correctly, e.g.:
import unittest
class TestStringMethods(unittest.TestCase):
def test_upper(self):
self.assertEqual('foo'.upper(), 'FOO')
def test_isupper(self):
self.assertTrue('FOO'.isupper())
self.assertFalse('Foo'.isupper())
def test_split(self):
s = 'hello world'
self.assertEqual(s.split(), ['hello', 'world'])
# check that s.split fails when the separator is not a string
with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
s.split(2)
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
[0]: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/unittest.html#basic-example
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
keywords: easy
messages: 130598
nosy: docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, michael.foord, ncoghlan,
rhettinger
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Improve unittest basic example in the doc
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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