wrestling with unittest paths..needs suggestions

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Vincent,

> path to main class... say: 
> 
> path = /home/workspace/src/foo
> There is a module Foo.py
> /home/workspace/src/foo/Foo.py
> 
> My unittest is in:
> /home/workspace/src/test/foo
> so:
> /home/workspace/src/test/foo/FooTest.py
Usually the `test' directory is under the source directory 
(/home/workspace/src/foo/test), this simplifies things.

> import os, sys
> testpath = os.path.abspath('/home/workspace/src/foo')
> sys.path.append(testpath)
> 
> Well, it works but if I have to do that for every test module that I write.. 
> Very nasty..
Have a look at python's test suite for a good example 
(/usr/lib/python23/test). There is one `test_support.py' module that 
each test import. If you need you can fix the path in this module only. 
If you use foo/test then just write `sys.path.append("..")' in 
test_support.py

HTH.
Miki