How to test same assertion for large amount of data

Question

I am using python unittest module to do a number of tests; however, it is very repetitive.

I have a lot of data that I want to run through the same test over and over, checking if correct. However, I have to define a test for every one.

For instance I want to do something similar to this. I know I could do it using a generator (found it in a previous thread here). But are there alternatives, maybe even using a different testing module?

Any suggestions would be great.

import unittest

class TestData(unittest.TestCase):
    def testNumbers(self):
        numbers = [0,11,222,33,44,555,6,77,8,9999]
        for i in numbers:
            self.assertEqual(i, 33)

Answer 1

As of Python 3.4 you can use unittest.TestCase.subTest(msg=None, **params) context manager (documentation). This will allow you to achieve what you want by adding just one statement.

Here is your example modified to use subTest()

import unittest

class TestData(unittest.TestCase):
    def testNumbers(self):
        numbers = [0, 11, 222, 33, 44, 555, 6, 77, 8, 9999]
        for i in numbers:
            with self.subTest(i=i):  # added statement
                self.assertEqual(i, 33)