unittest

[David Goodger]

Zunbeltz Izaola wrote:
 > Tnaks, why is this so?

 From the fine manual
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/minimal-example.html):

     A testcase is created by subclassing unittest.TestCase. The three
     individual tests are defined with methods whose names start with
     the letters "test". This naming convention informs the test runner
     about which methods represent tests.

The convention is necessary because you might want methods that are
*not* tests.

-- David Goodger