pip install unittest2==1.1.0

The new features in unittest backported to Python 2.4+.

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Over 2.3M downloads in the last 90 days.

Commonly used with unittest2

Based on how often these packages appear together in public requirements.txt files on GitHub.

stubserver

A stub webserver used to enable blackbox testing of applications that call external web urls. For example, an application that consumes data from an external REST api. The usage pattern is intended to be very much like using a mock framework.

mock

Rolling backport of unittest.mock for all Pythons

httpretty

HTTP client mock for Python

mockito

Spying framework

sure

utility belt for automated testing in python for python

testfixtures

A collection of helpers and mock objects for unit tests and doc tests.

cql

Cassandra Query Language driver

twitter.common.log

twitter.common logging handlers.

nose2

unittest2 with plugins, the succesor to nose

hexdump

dump binary data to hex format and restore from there

skal

Class based command line wrapper

ordereddict

A drop-in substitute for Py2.7's new collections.OrderedDict that works in Python 2.4-2.6.

travis-solo

Local Travis build runner

tempdir

Tempdirs are temporary directories, based on tempfile.mkdtemp

oio

test

hash_ring

Implements consistent hashing in Python (using md5 as hashing function).

nose-parallel

A nosetests plugin to split test suites to run in parallel

twitter.common.collections

twitter.common collections library.

spidermonkey

A standalone executable Spidermonkey JavaScript shell, and a Python utility module to run it.

Version usage of unittest2

Proportion of downloaded versions in the last 3 months (only versions over 1%).

1.1.0

97.63%

0.5.1

1.25%