unittest: how to specify which suites to run with unittest.main()?

[Fernando Perez]

Chad Netzer wrote:

>> > 1.  Don't name any method of testBase test*--or am I missing something?
>> 
>> Well, that doesn't work because I want to run those methods, but only
>> from
>> the test1/test2 instances.  These guys override the setUp() method to
>> configure the tests with different parameters, but otherwise need to run
>> exactly the same tests.  So having them inherit all the test* methods
>> from testBase actually makes perfect sense: they inherit all the tests,
>> configure the setUp() call differently, and go on happily.  So that
>> solution doesn't work.
> 
> I think the mix-in approach you gave is perfectly fine.  That is exactly
> what multiple inheritence is for.  test1 and test2 ARE both a testBase
> and a TestCase, and a TestCase is by definition what you want unittest
> to run.

Thanks for your input, but I think I'll go with the solution proposed by 
Peter Hansen.  It allows me to build my classes with a cleaner structure 
(no unnecessary mixins which add typing and clutter), and to tell 
unittest.main() exactly what I want it to run.

Best regards,

Fernando.