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Of things you mention I feel the testing part the most. I started python recently enough that I've only ever used pytest, but something about it just feels too...magical? I'm holding out hope for a new test framework that I'd feel more at home with, but I'm not aware of any such projects; do they exist?

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You could give the built-in unittest module [1] a try. It's less magical (although also less flexible) and many of its old limitations that people used to cite as advantages of pytest (e.g. built-in test discovery) have since been fixed.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html

I'm relatively new to Python, coming from Ruby and JS, and the built-in unittest module is just fine. I haven't had any issues with it, besides the documentation for setting it up following the conventions is really hard to find. But once it works, I like how simple it is. If you know OOP you'll feel right at home. You can simply create your own test case classes if you want to re-use stuff. No magical bloated configuration.

If "too magical" is the only complaint that is mentioned, then pytest is not too bad :)

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