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On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:34:33 AM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/21/2012 5:09 AM, Kevin Zhang wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> 
> >
> 
> > I want to sort the order of the unittest cases to be run, but found such
> 
> > statement in Python doc,
> 
> > "Note that the order in which the various test cases will be run is
> 
> > determined by sorting the test function names with respect to the
> 
> > built-in ordering for strings."
> 
> >
> 
> >      s.addTest(BTest())
> 
> >      s.addTest(ATest())
> 
> >      TextTestRunner().run(ts)
> 
> >
> 
> > I need BTest() to be run prior to ATest(), is there any
> 
> > natural/beautiful way to achieve this? Thanks,

If BTest *has* to run prior to ATest, it could be a code smell.