Hello,
your idea sounds good and handles the exception on teardown as well.
(I did not think about the if XXX!=None check in teardown())
I will now provide each of the instruments with an explicit shutdown()
method which frees the interface card as well.
These methods will be called in a finally
Hello Benjamin,
What would happen if an exception was thrown in the middle of setup()?
tearDown could not handle this case without having a list of the
objects already constructed (Or I would have to rely on the automatic
call to __del__, if it is reliable).
There is still some problem:
Imagine
Hello,
I have a class measurement representing a physical measurement.
Different objects in this class represent laboratory equipment, which
might raise an exception (e.g. overtemperature).
In any case the equipment has to be switched off after the experiment,
since if a
power supply stays in the