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Author pitrou
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Date 2013-09-19.13:06:50
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> That would only be a shallow copy, so I'm not sure it's worth the
> effort. The test has the opportunity in the setUp to ensure that
> initial state is correct - so I would leave that per test.

I don't understand your objection. The concern is to get rid of old
state after test execution.

> Obviously
> sharing state between tests is prima facie bad, but any framework
> reusing test suites is doing that already.

What do you mean?
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2013-09-19 13:06:50pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, tim.peters, rhettinger, terry.reedy, fabioz, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, michael.foord, matthewlmcclure, asvetlov, meador.inge, python-dev, tomwardill, matthewlmcclure-gmail, charettes
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