bpo-32972: Document IsolatedAsyncioTestCase of unittest module (GH-15878)

* Document `unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase` API
* Add a simple example with respect to order of evaluation of setup and teardown calls.


https://bugs.python.org/issue32972



Automerge-Triggered-By: @asvetlov

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 2b4eb63..07202ea 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -1111,6 +1111,32 @@ unittest
 * Several mock assert functions now also print a list of actual calls upon
   failure. (Contributed by Petter Strandmark in :issue:`35047`.)
 
+* :mod:`unittest` module gained support for coroutines to be used as test cases
+  with :class:`unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase`.
+  (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov in :issue:`32972`.)
+
+  Example::
+
+    import unittest
+
+
+    class TestRequest(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
+
+        async def asyncSetUp(self):
+            self.connection = await AsyncConnection()
+
+        async def test_get(self):
+            response = await self.connection.get("https://example.com")
+            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+
+        async def asyncTearDown(self):
+            await self.connection.close()
+
+
+    if __name__ == "__main__":
+        unittest.main()
+
+
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