I believe he is looking for something like pytest’s parameterize:

https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/example/parametrize.html

This is actually pretty basic functionality for writing DRY tests, a key
missing feature.

Frankly though, unittest is painfully unpythonic and hard to extend. I’ve
given up. Just use pytest.

-CHB


On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:56 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:

> Hi Leonardo,
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:31:26AM -0000, Leonardo Freua wrote:
>
> > When writing some unit tests with the standard Unittest library, I
> > missed being able to create parameterized tests.
>
> Could you please explain what you mean by "parameterized tests", and how
> you would use a decorator for it? What you mean by it may not be what
> other people understand it to be.
>
>
>
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