On 3/18/2012 9:31 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
Suppose we want to use the unittest from Python 2.7, but also want to support Python 2.6, what is the best way to do it?The solution used now is to have in setup.py if sys.version < '2.7': tests_require.append('unittest2') and then in every test file try: import unittest2 as unittest except ImportError: import unittest and it should work just fine, but it's a bit verbose to have this try/except dance everywhere.. Any ideas?
1. If the difference between unittest and unittest2 is strictly a matter of deletions and addition, replace unittest with the union of the two.
2. Put the try/except dance in a compat file. Then everywhere else 'from compat import unittest'. This idea is one of those used to write code that will run on both 2.x and 3.x
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