Hi there Christopher, I was wondering if you (or anyone reading this ) could quickly summarize the ways in which unittest is unpythonic, or point me to somewhere which discusses this.
Is this 'consensus opinion' or mainly your own opinion? Is there a summary somewhere (in addition to the Zen of Python thingy) of what kinds of things are 'pythonic' and why they are considered so? I see it referred to a lot, and am starting to get a feel for it in some areas but not others. I am fairly newbie-ish, having been actively working as a python programmer for the last 6 months, although I did first learn the basics several years ago. I have noticed some distinctly funny and confused feelings I get when using the unittest module, stuff that feels clunky and odd about how it is set-up, however I thought that this was just due to *my personal* lack of understanding of the deep magic and sophisticated design patterns used in this module! If it turns out to be 'unpythonic' then I can blame the funny feelings on that and sigh in a smug and vaguely superior way whenever I get them ;) I have not yet used the doctest module but would like to begin soon :) I am also very interested in py.lib, just looked at the website and will be keeping an eye on it. One of the things I am doing a lot of at the moment is documentation and testing, hence the interest! Wendy Langer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list