[BangPypers] issues using constructor in unittest
Senthil Kumaran
orsenthil at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 10:46:45 CET 2011
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 03:00:01PM +0530, Nitin Kumar wrote:
> Hi Navin,
> I can't use setUp as this will be called every time for each test cases, I
> thought of using setUpClass decorator but there i can define self.
>
> import unittest2
> class XMLSupport(unittest2.TestCase):
> def __init__(self):
> super(XMLSupport,self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
> self.x = 3
>
You don't have constructor for unittest class. Because of the way
unittest framework works, (namely creates testobjects for its
purposes), creating an object is not recommended. I have not seen any
code doing it. For what you are trying to do, you could do something
like this:
(Follow along and modify as per your requirement)
import unittest
x = 100
class XMLSupport(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
print 'In setup'
self.x = 3
def test_3(self):
print(self.x)
self.x += 1
global x
x += 1
def test_4(self):
print(self.x)
print(x)
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
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