Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Exploring testing

[David W. <wo...@cs...>]

On 24-Mar-08, at 1:33 PM, Waylan Limberg wrote:
> ...
> Unrelated to my work on python-markdown I was checking out
> [python-nose][] to see what the recent hype was all about. Turns out
> its basically a clone of [py.test][] that claims to be "less magic".
> Now I had personally never used py.test, so that didn't mean much to
> me, although "less magic" sounded good. Anyway, in browsing through
> the nose documentation I stumbled upon [Test generators][] (scroll to
> bottom of that page) which I don't remember seeing before. It turns
> out [py.test has them too][]. Simply put, you can write one test which
> runs through a loop and generates (using `yeild`) a separate
> (sandboxed) unit test for each cycle of the loop.
> ...
Looks neat!
I've been using nose for a while now, and it's been really nice.  I  
would certainly be in support of a nose-base test suite...