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Mike Thompson none.by.e-mail
Tue Dec 28 22:42:09 EST 2004 
Roy Smith wrote:
> "Grig" <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>"Problem with porting patterns/api's from java straight to python is
>>that most of the outcome feels unpythonic. I'll not go about my own
>>feelings python vs. java here now, but I just want to point out that
>>there's already a rather large core of hard-python users who refuse to
>>use pyUnit because of this,
> 
> 
> I'm curious what people find "un-pythonic" about PyUnit?  I've used it, 
> and while some parts of it seem a little over-complex to me, I don't see 
> anything about it which is inherently un-pythonic.  Is this just a case 
> of Not Invented Here?

I've seen 'py.test' proposed as as a more pythonic unit test framework. 
So its design may provide you with some clues.  It can be found at:

http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/test.html#starting-point-py-test-command-line-tool

As far as I can see, the defining feature of py.test is the simplicity 
of the API.  Its impressively absent.

--
Mike
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