[py-dev] failing import in toplevel module
Carl Friedrich Bolz
cfbolz at gmx.de
Tue Nov 15 23:19:51 CET 2005
Hi py-dev!
today I had the following problem with py.test: I could not find a way
to skip tests in a package if the import of the package itself fails
(because the __init__.py raises something). Example:
assuming I have a package directory "example" with two files in it:
__init__.py:
------------
something that can raise ImportError
test_it.py:
-----------
import py
try:
import example
except ImportError:
py.test.skip("missing dependencies, whatever")
... (some tests)
In this situation the tests will always fail because py.test
automatically tries to import the top-level package. This cannot be
circumvented even when using a conftest file since the import of the
top-level package happens very early.
Is there something I was missing? Couldn't for example py.test only
insert the path to the top-level dir into sys.path, so that the "import
example" find the correct package?
Cheers,
Carl Friedrich
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