Re: [Python-Dev] light-weight testing

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Finney
Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For what it's worth, I've been using nose for quite a long time and > the first reason I did so is, like you, because I wanted to write > tests in a light way (without having to declare classes). > > Then after writing some dozens of tests I switched b

Re: [Python-Dev] light-weight testing

2008-07-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Antoine Pitrou wrote: (especially when you come to have setup/teardown functions shared by several tests). These days, I tend to just write a context manager for common setup/teardown code rather than using the setUp/tearDown hooks (at least for Python's own test suite, where I have the luxur

[Python-Dev] light-weight testing

2008-07-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: > > I am interested in this suggestion. I didn't know about py.test. > > I admit to dissatisfaction with unittest (too Java-ish and heavyweight > for my tastes). I would love a test suite midway in weight between > doctests and unittest, so I will check i