unit testing, setUp and scoping

[Francisco Souza]

>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:47 AM, john maclean <jayeola at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can one use the setUp block to store variables so that they can be
> used elsewhere in unit tests? I'm thinking that it's better to have
> variables created in another script and have it imported from within
> the unit test
>

Hi John,
each TestCase is a object, and you can "store" attributes in this objects
normally, using self :)

class TestPythonStringsTestCase(
>
> unittest.TestCase):
>        def setUp(self):
>                print '''setting up stuff for ''', __name__
>                *self.*s1 = 'single string'
>                print dir(str)
>
>        def testclass(self):
>                '''test strings are of class str'''
>                self.assertEqual(*self.*s1.__class__, str)
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>        unittest.main()


This works fine and s1 is an internal attribute of your TesteCase.

Best regards,
Francisco Souza
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