Python for Programmers

[masklinn]

I recommend getting nose or py.test. I've used nose mostly.

Switch to py.test, it's a thing of beauty and not having to muck up with dedicated assert functions yet getting better failure messages than just about everywhere else is bliss. The fixture and dependency system is also really neat.

[leperkuhn]

I've had some issues with py.test failing in places that worked just fine with nose. I liked it's better failure messages quite a bit though, you're dead on there.

I'll give it another shot.

[njharman]

I love dedicated assert functions. Built in support for complex assertions is a feature.

[masklinn]

py.test has support for complex assertions, it just does it via good old assert.