Making the test run, when the script is run.

[Ornataweaver]

Without unitest.main(), the tests wouldn't run.

Please consider explaining to the student why the if statement is necessary, and why it checks if the name is __main__.
9 years ago I didn't understand this, I just found out about modules, and I'm very excited to share this.

Thank you. 🍇

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[BethanyG]

Hi @Ornataweaver 👋🏽

As the comments on your forum post imply, this was an on-purpose decision.

We used to use if __name__ == __main__ in our test files, but since the decision was made to use pytest for our online test runner and pytest syntax for our learning exercises, we've pointed students to installing and using pytest for testing. We retain the unittest syntax for now in test files, but might move to all-pytest syntax in the future.

If students so choose, they can add that block back to tests (although it won't work for learning exercises) themselves. but we don't support/encourage it, since it is a poorly understood feature for beginners to use and we do not yet have any learning exercises around it.

[Ornataweaver]

Thank you so much for putting the time and care. @BethanyG 🙏🏻