[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there Christopher, I was wondering if you (or anyone reading this ) > could quickly summarize the ways in which unittest is unpythonic, or > point me to somewhere which discusses this. > Is this 'consensus opinion' or mainly your own opinion?
It is just a consequence from the fact that unittest is actually a port from JUnit (Java) to Python, i.e. a consequence of trying to emulate a standard framework that many programmers are already familiar with, which is essentially not a bad idea. However, if you try to counterfeit Java programming, your code won't be effective or elegant in Python. > Is there a summary somewhere (in addition to the Zen of Python thingy) > of what kinds of things are 'pythonic' and why they are considered so? > I see it referred to a lot, and am starting to get a feel for it in > some areas but not others. It's probably never been listed completely (and it also changes slowly as the language evolves). Programming in an unpythonic way is like driving a nail with a screwdriver. Here are some more explanations: http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/06/0 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2005-April/004975.html -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
