I just committed a slightly newer version of PyTestMate. If you're interested in the original announcement you can see it here.

The main new feature of this release is colour-coding of the errors. The Error Free display looks something like this:


When a test fails, the output will look something like this:



Any constructive input will be gratefully received.

There's still a lot of work to do here. PyTestMate does not gracefully handle coding errors (syntax or logical) if exceptions or failures occur, the output is very ugly. Those are the next problems for me to tackle.

I wrote earlier about how easy it was to add support for py.test to TextMate While it worked effectively it was really ugly as it used a deprecated feature of TextMate. TextMate's default interface to Python is called PyMate. It gives very nice, very readable output from the Python interpreter. I thought that if Python output could be so pretty and readable, it should be possible to do something similar with the output from py.test.

My efforts to create such a tool are located here PyTestMate. Please be aware that while this is quite usable for me, it may or may not work for you! There are no good installation instructions yet, and you will have to configure the bundle command yourself.

Of course all the unit tests for PyTestMate were written using PyTestMate!

I would love any feedback, good, bad or indifferent. I'll enhance it as time permits, and if you have suggestions please let me know so I can add them to my todo list.

I've been using Vim for at least six or seven years. I love it, and can't imagine life without it. However, a month or so ago I discovered a little OSX text editor called TextMate from MacroMates. The first time I downloaded it and played with it I wasn't very impressed, it didn't, at first blush, seem as complete as TextWrangler. But I kept hearing little things about it, so decided to check it out.

I'm working on a little python project and do all my development work using Test Driven Development. So I loaded up my files into TextMate and started to explore. I discovered that TextMate supports python's unittest framework, but for this project I had decided to experiment with py.test. TextMate doesn't support py.test out of the box, but it turned out to be a ten minute exercise to add py.test support to TextMate.

Digging into the code, TextMate handled all my needs, while I'm still not as fast in it as I am in Vim, I can accomplish quite a bit in a short period of time, and as I learn more every day, my speed is increasing. TextMate's "bundle" -- generally languages, but sometimes interfaces (e.g., to svn) -- support makes it easy to extend the functionality of this wonderful little editor (I'm not sure why I call it little as it's incredibly capable, it just feels little!)