Message 181792 - Python tracker

> Subtests break the current unittest api of suite.countTests() and I
> fear they will also break tools that use the existing test result api
> to generate junit xml for continuous integration.

It depends how you define countTests(). sub-tests, as the name implies,
are not independent test cases. As for breaking tools, I don't really
understand what's special about junit xml. Why would a subtest failure
be different from a test failure in that regard?