unittest and automatically firing off tests

[Tom Plunket]

Bernhard Herzog wrote:

> I think it's done that way to set the return code of the python process
> so that in a shell you could use it to determine whether the tests were
> executed successfully.

Oh- I hadn't though about that.  Makes sense.

>     files = os.listdir(os.curdir)
>     names = []
>     for file in files:
>         if file[:4] == "test" and file[-3:] == ".py":
>             names.append(file[:-3])
> 
>     suite = unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromNames(names)
>     runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity = 2)
>     result = runner.run(suite)
> 
>     sys.exit(not result.wasSuccessful())

Super, will extract what I can from this.  Thanks.

-tom!