[Python-Dev] unittest package

Robert Collins robert.collins at canonical.com
Fri Apr 3 00:00:42 CEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:58 -0500, Michael Foord wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> The unittest module is around 1500 lines of code now, and the tests are 
> 3000 lines.
> 
> It would be much easier to maintain as a package rather than a module. 
> Shall I work on a suggested structure or are there objections in principle?
> 
> Obviously all the functionality would still be available from the 
> top-level unittest namespace (for backwards compatibility).
> 
> Michael

I'd like to see this; jmls' testtools package has a layout for this
which is quite nice.

-Rob
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