Thanks for the link, Grig. I wasn't aware of the py lib so far. The possibility to create fixtures at the three different scopes is exactly what I was looking for.
Anyway, I think it would be nice to have that feature in the standard lib unittest as well. It should not be too hard to add setUpOnce and tearDownOnce methods in addition to setUp and tearDown. Actually, I am wondering that there doesn't seem to be any development progress since unittest was included in the standard lib of Python 2.1 in August 2001. I had expected that such an important module would be continually improved and maintained. How come? So few people using unit tests? Or do most people write their own testing code or use py.test? -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list