Message 339700 - Python tracker

Message339700

Author	Peter de Blanc
Recipients	Peter de Blanc, ezio.melotti, michael.foord, rbcollins
Date	2019-04-09.05:40:34
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According to unittest docs: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/unittest.html#module-unittest `setUpClass is called with the class as the only argument and must be decorated as a classmethod()` and: `tearDownClass is called with the class as the only argument and must be decorated as a classmethod()` However, I was able to create a passing test case where `setUpClass` and `tearDownClass` are decorated with `@staticmethod` instead of `@classmethod`: I tested this with Python versions 3.6.4 and 3.7.1. Please update the documentation to indicate that `@staticmethod` is allowed here, or else indicate why it's bad.

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According to unittest docs: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/unittest.html#module-unittest

`setUpClass is called with the class as the only argument and must be decorated as a classmethod()`

and:

`tearDownClass is called with the class as the only argument and must be decorated as a classmethod()`

However, I was able to create a passing test case where `setUpClass` and `tearDownClass` are decorated with `@staticmethod` instead of `@classmethod`:

I tested this with Python versions 3.6.4 and 3.7.1.

Please update the documentation to indicate that `@staticmethod` is allowed here, or else indicate why it's bad.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-04-09 05:40:35	Peter de Blanc	set	recipients: + Peter de Blanc, rbcollins, ezio.melotti, michael.foord
2019-04-09 05:40:35	Peter de Blanc	set	messageid: <1554788435.05.0.183130492369.issue36569@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2019-04-09 05:40:34	Peter de Blanc	link	issue36569 messages
2019-04-09 05:40:34	Peter de Blanc	create