unit testing, setUp and scoping

[john maclean]

On 14 April 2010 16:22, Francisco Souza <francisco at franciscosouza.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
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Thanks! that worked.


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