Hello Benjamin, What would happen if an exception was thrown in the middle of setup()? tearDown could not handle this case without having a list of the objects already constructed (Or I would have to rely on the automatic call to __del__, if it is reliable).
There is still some problem: Imagine a communication error in run() which would cause del to fail on the instrument. Anyway, I think this case is still more difficult to handle. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
