unittest unpythonic? [Was: Re: Tidying up]

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:54:48AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> >I think unittest is rather ugly and unpythonic, so I don't know if I'd
>> >really switch to that, but some tests in regular Python should be added.
>>
>> This is a bit off-topic, but I'm a curious soul. Feel free to take sthis
>> off the mailing list if you want to.
>>
>> As I'm not a very experienced Python programmer I'm wondering what makes
>> you say unittest is "unpythonic"?
>
>have you used doctest?

Nope, not yet. I actually didn't even know it existed. I've used
unittest to some extent. I guess I went jUnit (mentioned in books on
TDD) -> PyUnit -> unittest, and then I stopped.

I've started looking at doctest, and I can see how it helps in putting
together unit tests. I also saw that they can work together (still have
to work through the details of that though).

If you by your question is suggesting that doctest is more pythonic than
unittest, then I'd like an explanation to that as well ;-)

/M

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