Is it possible to make a unittest decorator to rename a method from "x" to "testx?"

[adam.preble at gmail.com]

On Thursday, August 8, 2013 3:04:30 AM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I cannot help but note that this is *more* typing. But anyhow, something 

It wasn't so much about the typing so much as having "test" in front of everything.  It's a problem particular to me since I'm writing code that, well, runs experiments.  So the word "test" is already all over the place.  I would even prefer if I could do away with assuming everything starting with "test" is a unittest, but I didn't think I could; it looks like Peter Otten got me in the right direction.

> like this might work.
> 

> def test(f):
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>      f.__class__.__dict__['test_'+f.__name__]
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> 
> 
> might work. Or maybe for the body just
> 
>     setattr(f.__class__, 'test_'+f.__name__)
> 

Just for giggles I can mess around with those exact lines, but I did get spanked trying to do something similar.  I couldn't reference __class__ for some reason (Python 2.7 problem?).