Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
The use case of setUpClass and tearDownClass is to run once during class setup and teardown where a class variable might be mutated. It's not a strict requirement [0] but rather maybe a common use case. There is at least one test case where setUpClass is used with @staticmethod at [1] [0] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5909ad1217aad200c69ffa794fcab285bacb609e/Lib/unittest/suite.py#L159 [1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5909ad1217aad200c69ffa794fcab285bacb609e/Lib/test/test_dbm_gnu.py#L12 ---------- nosy: +xtreak _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36569> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
