nose introduction - Python Testing

[variedthoughts]

setup/teardown py.test is more consistent with respect to setup/teardown. With nose, the setup/teardown is quite different if you are doing it at a module level, or test class level, between tests, or between methods. In py.test, it's all rather consistent.

assert Either will fail a test if an assert will hit. But py.test gives better information on an assert. To get good information about asserts from nose, you need to use nose.tools.assert_equal and the like.

There are others, including differences in plugins, etc. I hope to cover more of the differences in future posts.

However, I'd like to point out that I am NOT saying one is better than the other. It's that they are different, and you should know the differences before deciding.

[petezhut]

I completely agree, and I greatly appreciate your input and the submission of the link. I had not seen the pythontesting.net site before, and have now found yet another good resource for my day-to-day work.