unittest / pdb tricks?

[Alex]

Hi, Sam.  Below is the subclass of TestCase that I use to make unittests
throw an exception and drop back into the interpreter when they fail.
You can turn this behaviour off on a case-by-case basis by overriding
the value of __stopOnError__.  I find it useful to do that for some
tests whose failures don't indicate such urgent problems, like the CVS
repository not being completely up-to-date.

Alex.

class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    """Version of TestCase that can be easily run independantly of the
    testing framework."""

    __stopOnError__ = 1

    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):

        if args: apply(unittest.TestCase.__init__, (self,) + args, kw)

    def throwsException(self, test_function, expected_exc):

        """True if  'test_function()' throws 'expected_exc'"""

        try: test_function()
        except expected_exc: return 1

    def __call__(self, result=None):

        if self.__stopOnError__:
            result.startTest(self)
            self.setUp(); self.__testMethod(); self.tearDown();
            print
        else:
            unittest.TestCase.__call__(self, result)