unittest behaving oddly

[David Vincent]

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On 20/06/2006, at 23:15, Mike Kent wrote:

> David Vincent wrote:
>
>>> import unittest
>>>
>>> class IntegerArithmenticTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
>>>     def testAdd(self):  ## test method names begin 'test*'
>>>         assertEquals((1 + 2), 3)
>>>         assertEquals(0 + 1, 1)
>
> assertEquals is a member function, inherited from unittest.TestCase, so
> you must call it as self.assertEquals.  ForEx:

(Details deleted)


Thank you Mike.  That fixes most of my problems.

The code quoted above was from my verbatim copy of the example from the 
doc strings of unittest.py, from my computer's Python library.  I 
wonder how the example code could have been so badly wrong?


regards

David

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