[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

[Michael Foord]

On 09/02/2010 19:00, Olemis Lang wrote:
> Sorry. I had not finished the previous message
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Olemis Lang<olemis at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Olemis Lang<olemis at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Michael Foord
>>> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> Several
>>>> authors of other Python testing frameworks spoke up *against* them, but
>>>> several *users* of test frameworks spoke up in favour of them. ;-)
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> +1 for having something like that included in unittest
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I'm pretty sure I can introduce setUpClass and setUpModule without breaking
>>>> compatibility with existing unittest extensions or backwards compatibility
>>>> issues
>>>>          
>>> Is it possible to use the names `BeforeClass` and `AfterClass` (just
>>> to be make it look similar to JUnit naming conventions ;o) ?
>>>
>>>        
>> Another Q:
>>
>>   - class setup method will be a `classmethod` isn't it ? It should not be
>>      a regular instance method because IMO it is not bound to a particular
>>      `TestCase` instance.
>>
>>      
>    - Is it possible to rely on the fact that all class-level tear down
>      methods will be guaranteed to run even if class-level setup
>      method throws an exception ?
>
>    
Yes it will be a classmethod rather than an instance method. I would 
expect that in common with instance setUp the tearDown would *not* be 
run if setUp fails. What would be nice would be an extension of 
addCleanUp so that it can be used by class and module level setUp. 
Clean-ups largely obsolete the need for tearDown anyway.

Michael

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