[py-dev] improving unittest support (was: Re: Running Django unittests using py.test)

[Morten Brekkevold]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:19:30PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
 
> > Django's TestCase class hooks into this by overriding
> > unittest.TestCase.__call__(), and adds pre_setup and post_teardown hooks as
> > well.  Since py.test never uses TestCase instances as callables, Django
> > fixtures are never loaded and these tests fail.
> 
> right.
>  
> > I'm not familiar with the inner workings of py.test, so my question is: Is
> > this behavior intentional? If not, can we change it?
> 
> It is intentional but we can (try to) change it :)

As long as the mentioned internal separation of the phases won't be a
problem. I'm sure you know best :)

> > (this can be reproduced using http://dpaste.com/hold/268698/ - which doesn't
> > require Django, it just rips off Django's TestCase code)
> 
> Thanks for providing the paste and your precise helpful info. 

No prob, I wrote that just to satisfy my curiosity.  Didn't want to start
tinkering with py.test code without knowing what I was doing, though.

> As it happens i am in the process of preparing a pytest-2.0 and just
> went ahead and changed the unittest-plugin to invoke the test case
> as you described.  This lets your example run.   

Wow, that was fast :-)

>     pip install -i http://pypi.testrun.org pytest
 
> Does this work better for you?

Definitely.  All tests pass with flying colors now, thank you very much.  Is
there an ETA on a 2.0 release?

-- 
mvh
Morten Brekkevold
UNINETT