Is there a python equivalent for RSpec to do TDD?

Question

I'm looking for a test framework like Ruby's RSpec to do test driven development in Python. The advantage of a framework like RSpec is that it offers a DSL that lends itself well to TDD. First you describe the test in english, and then you write the test, and when it fails you get a message saying what test failed with your nice description of what the test is trying to do.

So far I've looked at PyTest and Nose. PyTest seems closer to ruby's MiniTest than RSpec. Instead of offering a DSL with language to make it read like specifications, it focuses on assertions. Nose seems like a wrapper on PyTest that doesn't add its own DSL.

Is there another option I'm missing? Or am I just misusing PyTest and Nose? Has the Python community settled on some totally different way of doing this and I should stop trying to make it like Ruby? It doesn't seem, based on the number of stars on GitHub, that the community has really anointed either of these options as the preferred testing framework.

Answer 1

The closest I have come to doing a brief google search was mamba + expects:

• mamba: https://github.com/nestorsalceda/mamba
• expects: https://github.com/jaimegildesagredo/expects