unittest: Calling tests in liner number order

Eric Wertman ewertman at gmail.com
Sat May 24 10:40:43 EDT 2008


>I can't relate to anyone that want to oppose a change that would give
>more freedom to a programmer.

While in general I agree with this.. I think in the case of python
part of it's base philosophy seems to be a tendency to encourage a
single way of doing things, and create a path of least resistance to
the "best" way.  "best" in this case being one or a handful of peoples
opinion.  I'm really ok with this, personally.  I think it's working
well.

So.. I'll post this because I'm sure at least one person hasn't seen it:

>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!



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