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Re: parametized unittest

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In article <mailman.5355.1389500996.18130.python-list@python.org>,
 "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 08:00:05PM -0800, CraftyTech wrote:
> > I'm finding it hard to use unittest in a for loop.  Perhaps something like:
> > 
> > for val in range(25):
> >   self.assertEqual(val,5,"not equal)
> > 
> > The loop will break after the first failure.  Anyone have a good
> > approach for this?  please advise.
> 
> If Python 3.4 is an option, you can stick to the standard library and
> use subtests [1].

Or, as yet another alternative, if you use nose, you can write test 
generators.

https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/writing_tests.html#test-generators

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parametized unittest CraftyTech <hmmedina@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 20:00 -0800
  Re: parametized unittest Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-12 15:22 +1100
  Re: parametized unittest "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> - 2014-01-11 20:28 -0800
    Re: parametized unittest Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-11 23:34 -0500
      Re: parametized unittest CraftyTech <hmmedina@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 08:57 -0800

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