[Peter Hansen] > unittest can really be rather light. Most of our > test cases are variations on the following, with > primarily application-specific code added rather than > boilerplate or other unittest-related stuff: > > import unittest > > class TestCase(unittest.TestCase): > def test01(self): > '''some test....''' > self.assertEquals(a, b) > > def test02(self): > '''another test''' > self.assertRaises(Error, func, args) . . . > I'm a little puzzled why folks so often consider this > particularly "heavy".
unittest never felt heavy to me until I used py.test. Only then do you realize how much boilerplate is needed with unittest. Also, the whole py.test approach has a much simpler object model. BTW, the above code simplifies to: from py.test import raises assert a == b raises(Error, func, args) Raymond Hettinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
