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On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:17 PM Matthew Treinish <mtreinish at kortar.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:58:43PM +0200, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Most OpenStack projects use testtools/fixtures/unittest2 for unit tests.
> It
> > was immensely helpful in Python 2 times, but I wonder if we should
> migrate
> > away now. I've hit at least these three bugs:
> > https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues/235
> > https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues/275
> > https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues/144
> >
> > We can invest time in fixing them, but I wonder if we should just migrate
> > to the standard unittest (and move oslotest to it) now that we require
> > Python >= 3.6.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> It's used extensively, all the fixtures usage is based on testtools,
> additionally all the attachments (mainly captured stdout, stderr, and
> logging)
> rely on testtools result stream which adds the concept of attachments. None
> of that is in stdlib unittest.
>

Then should we invest time to fix the testtools bugs? I understand that
folks use stuff that is not in stdlib, but it's pretty annoying to not be
able to use stuff that IS in stdlib.

Dmitry


>
> -Matt Treinish
>
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