[Pyunit-interest] Newbie confused by options

[Noah <no...@no...>]

In what circumstance would I want to define runTest() vs. testXXX()?

I am unclear on the difference between the runTest() method
and test methods in the form testXXX() (where XXX is replaced by some string).
The PyUnit Website starts by introducing runTest(), but then
almost immediately switches to the form testXXX() for tests.
The TestCase doc string says "test code itself should be placed 
in a method named 'runTest'", yet I was able to follow all 
the examples on the PyUnit Website while ignoring runTest(). 

It seems that runTest() is redundant since the TestSuite class
will automatically discover methods named in the form testXXX().
In fact runTest() seems to be limited in functionality because
you cannot use unittest.main() to test a class that only overrides runTest().
And unittest.TestSuite().makeSuite() likewise does not use runTest().

Is there more than one way to do it?

Yours,
Noah