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 luxury of assuming 2.5+ as
the Python version).
Where I find unittest.TestCase quite convenient is when I want to run
the same set of tests with a few different settings - for those, putting
the settings into class attributes and then inheriting from the basic
test case and using different values is very convenient. This trick is
particularly useful for testing that a class supports inheritance properly.
Cheers,
Nick.
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