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[Python-Dev] unittest bug

[Python-Dev] unittest bug [Python-Dev] unittest bugEthan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Aug 3 23:58:31 CEST 2011
Michael Foord wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2011, at 21:36, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> My apologies for posting here first, but I'm not yet confident enough in my bug searching fu, and duplicates are a pain.
>>
>> Here's the issue:
>>
>> from unittest import *
> 
> That's the bug right there. Just import TestCase and main and everything should work fine. Using "import *" is not recommended except at the interactive interpreter and it doesn't play well with unittest.main which does magic introspection to find tests to run.

If from xxx import * is not supported, why provide __all__?  At the very 
least the lack of a warning is a documentation bug.

~Ethan~
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