[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-02-09 15:57 PM, Ben Finney wrote:

> Is there a better third-party framework for use in these cases? As
> Olemis points out later in this thread, I don't think it's good for the
> ‘unittest’ module to keep growing for uses that aren't focussed on unit
> tests (as contrasted with other kinds of tests).

nosetests allows you to write such module-level and class-level setup and 
teardown functions.

-- 
Robert Kern

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