On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:16:35 +0200 Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Antoine: > >> * skip a test if it allocates too much memory, command line argument > >> to specify how many memory a test is allowed to allocate (ex: > >> --memlimit=2G for 2 GB of memory) > > > > That would be suitable for a plugin if unittest had a plugin > > architecture, but not as a core functionality IMO. > > My hidden question is more why unittest doesn't already have a plugin > system, whereas there are tons on projects based on unittest extending > its features like pytest, nose, testtools, etc.
Michael Foord or Robert Collins may be able to answer that question :-) Though I suspect the answer has mainly to do with lack of time and the hurdles of backwards compatibility. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
