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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook The latest in modern Python recipes for the busy modern programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469250
Length 692 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-in Data Structures – list, set, dict 5. User Inputs and Outputs 6. Basics of Classes and Objects 7. More Advanced Class Design 8. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 9. Testing 10. Web Services 11. Application Integration

Combining unittest and doctest tests

In most cases, we'll have a combination of unittest and doctest test cases. For examples of doctest, see the Using docstrings for testing recipe. For examples of unittest, see the Creating separate test modules and packages recipe.

The doctest examples are an essential element of the documentation strings on modules, classes, methods, and functions. The unittest cases will often be in a separate tests directory in files with names that match the pattern test_*.py.

How can we combine all of these various tests into one tidy package?

Getting ready

We'll refer back to the example from the Using docstrings for testing recipe. This recipe created tests for a class, Summary, that does...

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