Re:Pytest Tips and Tricks
by liendolucas on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:33AM
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Same feelings here. When I see pytest is like: "oh no...". Been using nose2/unittest for ages and I will continue to do so because is so damn simple.
> that it makes learning the library difficult for new comers
Not only for newcomers, I've used in the past and if I need to pick it up again I believe I'm going to spend some time refreshing a ton of things and probably get got caught by some caveat.
> fixtures are passed as arguments in function
Exactly questioned that myself so long ago. Implementing fixture functionality from scratch in Python (even supporting different formats) is only a few lines of code.
> that it makes learning the library difficult for new comers
Not only for newcomers, I've used in the past and if I need to pick it up again I believe I'm going to spend some time refreshing a ton of things and probably get got caught by some caveat.
> fixtures are passed as arguments in function
Exactly questioned that myself so long ago. Implementing fixture functionality from scratch in Python (even supporting different formats) is only a few lines of code.