Which are the most advanced frameworks and tools there are available for python for practicing Behavior Driven Development? Especially finding similar tools as rspec and mocha for ruby would be great.
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Ian Bicking recommends using doctest for behavior driven design:
I personally tend to use nose and voidspace mock in a behavior driven design style. Specifically, the spec plugin for nose is excellent for BDD.
The Pyccuracy project is an effort to provide a domain-specific language for BDD in Python.
Unlike doctest, which works at the API level, it encodes higher-level operations such as loading a web page and submitting a form. I haven't used it but it looks somewhat promising if that is what you're looking for.
I am probably completely missing the point, but what I retained of the original BDD paper was that BDD was just TDD repackaged to emphasize some best practices.
If my interpretation is correct, you can get a BDD framework just by renaming methods around in any xUnit implementation. So just go ahead and use the standard library's unittest.
EDIT: A quick google turned up a Behaviour module in the Cheese Shop. Further searching for BDD there did not find anything else.
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