From: Johannes Gijsbers <jlg@dds.nl>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:02:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that it's not necessary to subclass from TestCase to create a
X-Git-Tag: v2.4c1~74
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eaaa771816ccb514cef2cceeb883fc8b8912b6ff;p=python

Clarify that it's not necessary to subclass from TestCase to create a
test case. As Jeremy put it: "subclassing is an implementation
technique, not a type declaration".
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libunittest.tex b/Doc/lib/libunittest.tex
index e739a85f6a..2bcda36212 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libunittest.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libunittest.tex
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ starting a server process.
 A \dfn{test case} is the smallest unit of testing.  It checks for a
 specific response to a particular set of inputs.  PyUnit provides a
 base class, \class{TestCase}, which may be used to create new test
-cases.
+cases. You may provide your own implementation that does not subclass
+from \class{TestCase}, of course.
 
 \term{test suite}
 A \dfn{test suite} is a collection of test cases, test suites, or