[python-uk] Unit Testing Problem

[Francis Moore]

Hi,

Trying to get my head around Unit Testing (and Python) and I've come
across a strange 
problem when adding some tests to the example from
pyunit-1.4.1\doc\PyUnit.html. 

class Widget:
    def __init__(self, widgetname, size=(50,50)):
        self.name = widgetname
        self._size = size
    def func(self):
        return 4
    def name(self):
        return self.name

class WidgetTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.widget = Widget("The widget")
    def testFunc(self):
        assert self.widget.func() == 3, 'Invalid value'
    def testName(self):
        assert self.widget.name() == "The widget", "Invalid name"

I'm getting the error "TypeError: 'str' object is not callable" when I
run my test suite. 
It's complaining about the last line of code. 
However, if I take the function call brackets off (assert
self.widget.name == "The widget", "Invalid name") 
it works fine. I expected it to work like the func() example above it.

I did a search on Google for the error string, which turned up a few
explanations but none which really 
helped. Can anyone explain what's happening?

Many thanks,
Francis.
 
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