Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 02:23 PM 4/11/2001 -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>The problem is that many test suites (e.g. the Zope tests for
>PageTemplates :-) use assert statements instead of calls to fail*() /
>assert*() methods.

So in the future do I have to switch from:
         assert sess.hasFragments(self.userPages())

to:
         if sess.hasFragments(self.userPages()):
                 self.fail()
?

Here's a proposal that I know will get shot down.  :-)

How about a "test" statement?

         test sess.hasFragments(self.userPages())


- Works like assert
- Raises a TestError
- No flags to turn it off

One "soft" advantage is that it makes the concept of regression testing 
much more prominent. People will ask, "What is this 'test' statement I see 
in the language?" Then they will get a big lecture on unit testing.

(Aside: Glad to hear that optimizations and assertions will be separated in 
the future. Thanks. My favorite feature of Python over Objective-C is that 
Python gets better over time. (Objective-C stagnated.))

-Chuck