Kevin Butler wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Kevin Butler wrote: > > > from unittest.assertions import * > > > >> That's bad style (at least for modules which don't only include >> constants). Why would you want to enable this ? > > > :-) > > - In general, if you provide a submodule, users can do 'from unittest > import assertions' or 'import unittest.assertions as test' or some such. > Just having a grundle of top-level symbols in a module is less > convenient than appropriate grouping into submodules. > > - The Style Guide suggests prefixing methods that are intended for use > with 'import *', and these functions are 'test*' or 'assert*'... > > - For test code, I tend to be a bit more liberal with 'import *', > because in general, test code is pretty clear about what it is exercising. > > - The assertion methods are very independent of the other TestCase > methods, and can be very useful for non-TestCase methods. This low > coupling/high cohesion suggests organizing them together, but currently > there's no convenient way to get at them separately. And since the > methods really have little to do with an object instance, I find the > 'self.assert*' construct distracting, although I like self.* in most cases. I don't understand what you're after here, but if it's about making unittest a package and distributing the various bits in submodules of the package with the __init__.py file importing all of them... that's a way to approach the problem (if there is any ;-). I usually refactor modules that way as soon as they become too large to handle -- however, most of the times this is more an editing problem than a real need for a distributed design :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/ Meet us at EuroPython 2002: http://www.europython.org/
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