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  Re: I love assert Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 21:46 +0000

#80569 — Re: I love assert

----- Original Message -----

> From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
> To: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: I love assert
> 
> On 11/11/2014 01:09 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>>  Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> 
>>>  asserts are a specialized tool, easily abused.  Sounds like you are 
> using them
>>>  exactly as intended.
>> 
>>  Would you say that assert is baaadly abused in nose?*) I never tried it, 
> but
>>   probably all tests pass when Python is run with -O or -OO.
> 
> I don't know, haven't used it nor read the code.  It would certainly not 
> be good if it failed in optimized mode.


antonia@antonia-HP-2133 /tmp $ cat test.py
def test_func_1():
assert 1 == 2

def test_func_2():
x = 1; y = 2
assert x == y

if __name__ == "__main__":
import nose
nose.main()


antonia@antonia-HP-2133 /tmp $ python -O test.py
..
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.015s

OK

antonia@antonia-HP-2133 /tmp $ python -O -m nose test.py
..
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.003s

OK


antonia@antonia-HP-2133 /tmp $ python test.py
FF
======================================================================
FAIL: test.test_func_1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
self.test(*self.arg)
File "/tmp/test.py", line 2, in test_func_1
assert 1 == 2
AssertionError

======================================================================
FAIL: test.test_func_2
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
self.test(*self.arg)
File "/tmp/test.py", line 6, in test_func_2
assert x == y
AssertionError

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.044s

FAILED (failures=2)

antonia@antonia-HP-2133 /tmp $ python -m nose test.py
... (same as previous)


antonia@antonia-HP-2133 /tmp $ nosetests -O -v test.py   
Usage: nosetests [options]

nosetests: error: no such option: -O   # phweeew

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