Comment by brootstrap

in my work with python, easy to unit tests usually makes things a bit harder. You want functional methods , not mega classes with 100s of class variables , and each class method operates on some portion of those class variables. It makes it impossible to truly isolate functionality and test it. While coding though, it is very easy to make a class and throw god knows what into the class variable space and access those variables whenever... However if we have staticmethods , not reliant on any class , just the arguments provided, and it doesnt modify any class state, the test are great. We can change/refactor our models with confidence knowing the results are all the same.