Re: [Pyunit-interest] How to test a condition

[Chuck E. <Chu...@ya...>]

At 03:17 PM 9/2/2001 +0200, Steve Purcell wrote:
>Yes they are. I'm guilty of writing the separate pyunit docs, and Fred Drake
>wrote the standard library docs for the unittest module.
>
>There was some discussion about the appropriateness of using 'assert' and
>AssertionError when the Py2.1 integration was made. PyUnit was modified so
>that a different error could be used to indicate failure at a later date
>if Python's 'assert' and optimisation behaviour is altered.
>
>So the best idea is probably to favour the TestCase methods such as
>'failUnless()' over the 'assert' statement.
>
>However, I still use the 'assert' statement when I feel like it, and when
>I don't plan to run tests with Python's -O optimisation enabled.
>
>How's that for muddying the waters? :-)

Pretty good.  ;-)

But at least I have an idea of where things stand. The differences made me 
curious.


Thanks,
-Chuck