Dynamically passing variables to unittest

[Tom Haddon]

Hi Folks,

Newbie question here. I'm trying to set up some unit testing for a database abstraction class, and the first thing I want to test is the connection parameters. So, my question is, how do I dynamically pass the variables from a list, for example to the unittest module so I can maintain the list of test cases more easily:

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import DB
import unittest
                                                                                                                                                             
class ConnectString(unittest.TestCase):                                                                                                                                                            
        InvalidStrings=(['pg','test','localhost','5432','test','test']
                ,['pg','test','local',5432,'test','test'])
                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                             
        def testInvalidStrings(self):
                """Check that invalid connect parameters raise InvalidConnectString error"""
		    for i in InvalidStrings:
                           self.assertRaises(DB.InvalidConnectString, DB.DB,",".join(i))

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My problem is, this passes one string containing "'pg','test','localhost','5432','test','test'" rather than each one of those as variables.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks, Tom