Is this a good way to implement testing

[Ben Finney]

Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> writes:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> writes:
>
> >             action = options[0][0]
> >             if   action == '--all': ...
>
> Yecch, use an option parsing library for that, whichever one is
> currently fashionable. I think optparse is deprecated now but I still
> use it because I'm used to it.

Yes, ‘optparse’ has been superseded by the more capable ‘argparse’
library <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html>.

Migrating from ‘optparse’ to ‘argparse’ is quite straightforward, since
the latter was designed to be very similar.

> > Is this an acceptable way of working?
>
> You should also use the currently fashionable unit testing library. I
> use unittest because yada yada but I think it's now considered old
> school.

I disagree, using ‘unittest’ is still quite normal. It's also in the
standard library, unlike proposed replacements.

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Ben Finney