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Re: Is this a good way to implement testing

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

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@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Yes, ‘optparse’ has been superseded by the more capable ‘argparse’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

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Is this a good way to implement testing Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 00:29 +0200
  Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-03 00:17 +0100
  Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-02 20:06 -0400
  Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-05-02 20:58 -0700
    Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-03 14:49 +1000
  Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 09:36 +0200
    Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-03 09:38 +0100
    Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-03 10:45 +0200
      Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 11:49 +0200
        Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-03 11:21 +0100
          Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 12:50 +0200
    Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-03 18:52 +1000
  Re: Is this a good way to implement testing Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-03 11:22 +0200

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