I got into the habit of using Python unit tests in a job a few about a year ago. I eventually created the jsonhunt.py unit test in my Toys repository but it stopped working. I haven't even used the jsonhunt script in a while and am no longer certain of its usefulness but I don't like the idea of not being able to do unit tests if I wanted to. Simple working example So I sat down and got a simple unit test working. Here's the test script: Notes I wish I had found a way to see options or arguments in the test but I couldn't find a way to do that. I had to settle for an environment variable to control the logging level. From the job I mentioned, I remembered we had a way of specifying the log level through some sort of option but I couldn't find a opportunity to get such an option, even through the superclass. At first I was trying to use a zero-argument constructor method but that wasn't working so I added *args, **vargs . From the command line...
I'm a 50-something year old man in Central North Carolina, USA. I've been a software engineer for my professional career, volunteer at the local SPCA a lot, and enjoy music, movies, some TV, cats, puzzles, kayaking on calm lakes.