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Olemis Lang wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

>> Regarding the objection that setUp/tearDown for classes would run into
>> issues with subclassing, I propose to let the standard semantics of
>> subclasses do their job. Thus a subclass that overrides setUpClass or
>> tearDownClass is responsible for calling the base class's setUpClass
>> and tearDownClass (and the TestCase base class should provide empty
>> versions of both). The testrunner should only call setUpClass and
>> tearDownClass for classes that have at least one test that is
>> selected.
>>
> 
> +1
> 
> Considering zope.testing layers proposal, it seems that subclassing of
> layers works different, isn't it ?

Hmm, I wasn't making a proposal that the unittest module adopt
zope.testing's layers model:  I was just trying to point out that
another model did exist and was being used successfully.

Tres.
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