On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Vladimir Perić <vlada.pe...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ronan Lamy <ronan.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Le samedi 26 novembre 2011 à 14:06 +0100, Joachim Durchholz a écrit :
>>>> Issue link: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2867
>>>>
>>>> The idea here is to have a lambda expression instead of a string.
>>>> I.e. instead of
>>>>  >>> raises(TypeError, "Rational(2)*MyInt")
>>>> we want
>>>>  >>> raises(TypeError, lambda: Rational(2)*MyInt)
>>>>
>>>> This works very well, except when the code needs to test a statement
>>>> instead of an exception. I'd like to hear how to deal with these.
>>>
>>> As with most problems concerning the test suite, the best solution would
>>> be to use pytest: [http://pytest.org/latest/builtin.html#pytest.raises].
>>
>> Alright, so is there any reason we can't move back to pytest now? I
>> know Aaron and Ondrej want to keep SymPy working in "pure" Python, but
>> development dependencies are fine and a normal users doesn't really
>> need to run tests. I also know you've been working on making us
>> compatible again, how is that progressing?
>>
>> Aaron, Ondrej, what were the original reasons for moving away from
>> py.test and do they still apply?
>
> I don't know.  That happened before I joined the project.  Ondrej,
> Mateusz, or Vinzent might know.
>
> Aaron Meurer

By the way, I'm not opposed to it, as long as we don't lose any major
functionality.

Aaron Meurer

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