backports.unittest 0.0.1

"Backport of unittest and unittest.mock"

A backport of Python 3.14.x unittest and unittest.mock to older versions of Python, under the backports namespace.

Usage

from backports import unittest

def hello(greetee='world'):
    return 'Hello {greetee}!'.format(greetee=greetee)


class HelloTest(unittest.TestCase)
    def test_greeting(self):
        # assertStartsWith() added in Python 3.14
        self.assertStartsWith(hello(), 'Hello')

Installation

Use

pip install backports.unittest

or

uv pip install backports.unittest

Compatibility

Python 3.10 - 3.14 are tested, using backports of the CPython’s own test suite.

Related work

• unittest2 backports unittest from Python 2.7 to Python 2.4+

• backports.test.support backports test.support from Python 3.6 to Python 2.7+