Explain the “setUp” and “tearDown” Python methods used in test cases

Question

Can anyone explain the use of Python\'s setUp and tearDown methods while writing test cases apart from that setUp is called immediately be

Answer 1

Suppose you have a suite with 10 tests. 8 of the tests share the same setup/teardown code. The other 2 don't.

setup and teardown give you a nice way to refactor those 8 tests. Now what do you do with the other 2 tests? You'd move them to another testcase/suite. So using setup and teardown also helps give a natural way to break the tests into cases/suites