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Author	ocean-city
Recipients	giampaolo.rodola, lemburg, michael.foord, ocean-city, pitrou
Date	2010-09-23.14:50:26
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Message-id	<1285253428.72.0.169448863551.issue9868@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Destructors are special cased in many languages and tearDown is not a > destructor. Yes, but they are similar. > More importantly though the change you suggest would be > backwards incompatible. > The 'correct' way to do this in new code is to use cleanUp functions > which are called even if an exception is raised during setUp. I must admit I'm not familiar with unittest framework. Probably better way exists.

> Destructors are special cased in many languages and tearDown is not a
> destructor.

Yes, but they are similar.

> More importantly though the change you suggest would be
> backwards incompatible.

> The 'correct' way to do this in new code is to use cleanUp functions
> which *are* called even if an exception is raised during setUp.

I must admit I'm not familiar with unittest framework. Probably
better way exists.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-09-23 14:50:28	ocean-city	set	recipients: + ocean-city, lemburg, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, michael.foord
2010-09-23 14:50:28	ocean-city	set	messageid: <1285253428.72.0.169448863551.issue9868@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-09-23 14:50:27	ocean-city	link	issue9868 messages
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