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Tutorial: usage with pytest
It's awesome to have a tutorial!
At the same time, I feel that unittest framework's time has passed (not everyone agrees, it's just my opinion) and we're happily using pytest and it integrates nicely with asynctest.
Our use in a nutshell:
pytestmark = [pytest.mark.asyncio]
@asynctest.mock.patch("some.thing.patched", autospec=True)
async def test_something_or_other(patched, fixture, fixture):
...
Hi,
What are you suggesting? Do you think that the examples in the tutorial should use pytest instead of unittest or both?
I use the unittest in the tutorial runner for these reasons:
- I don't really have an experience with pytest (the unittest runner has always been sufficient for my use cases),
- asynctest extends unittest.TestCase, while IIRC, pytest suggests a different approach to write test functions (with a decorator),
- I like that the tutorial don't require to install an external package.
Feedbacks and suggestions are welcome!
I, personally, would rather see pytest examples instead of unittest.
At the same time, I'd gladly see pytest examples in addition to unittest when the alternative is only unittest :)
Another possibility is to keep basic examples concise without reference to a specific framework, e.g. https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html