[Python-Dev] light-weight testing

2008-07-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info writes: I am interested in this suggestion. I didn't know about py.test. I admit to dissatisfaction with unittest (too Java-ish and heavyweight for my tastes). I would love a test suite midway in weight between doctests and unittest, so I will check

Re: [Python-Dev] light-weight testing

2008-07-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Antoine Pitrou wrote: (especially when you come to have setup/teardown functions shared by several tests). These days, I tend to just write a context manager for common setup/teardown code rather than using the setUp/tearDown hooks (at least for Python's own test suite, where I have the

Re: [Python-Dev] light-weight testing

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Finney
Antoine Pitrou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For what it's worth, I've been using nose for quite a long time and the first reason I did so is, like you, because I wanted to write tests in a light way (without having to declare classes). Then after writing some dozens of tests I switched back to