[Zope-Coders] Help with Unit Testing: safe imports

Guido van Rossum guido@pcp02138704pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:17 -0400


> Python's own 'unittest.py' fails silently if the test module bails with
> import errors.
> 
> Successful import of the module-under-test should *not* be assumed by
> the test module..

I don't understand this.  Can you describe a scenario in more detail?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)