Adding methods from one class to another, dynamically

[Steve Holden]

Oltmans wrote:
> Thank you for your help, Chris. Looks like I can now attach methods to
> class 'tee'. However, after attaching methods to 'tee' when I try to
> run them using suite.run() I don't see any of the methods running, I'm
> sorry but I've no clue what's failing this. Any insights will be
> highly appreciated. Here is the sample code
> filename: check.py
> ---
> import inspect
> import unittest
> 
> 
> class result(unittest.TestResult):
> 
>     def addSuccess(self,test):
>         print str(test) + ' succeeded'
>     def addError(self,test,err):
>         print 'An error occured while running the test ' + str(test) +
> ' and error is = ' + str(err)
>     def addFailure(self,test,err):
>         print str(test) + " failed with an error =" + str(err)
> 
> 
> 
> class test(unittest.TestCase):
>     def test_first(self):
>         print 'first test'
>     def test_second(self):
>         print 'second test'
>     def test_third(self):
>         print 'third test'
> 
> import new
> class tee(unittest.TestCase):
>     pass
> 
> if __name__=="__main__":
>     r = result()
>     for name,func in inspect.getmembers(test,inspect.ismethod):
>         if name.find('test_')!= -1:
> 
>             setattr(tee, name, new.instancemethod(func,None,tee))
> 
>     suite = unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromName('check.tee')
>     suite.run(r)
> ---
> 
> Then line suite.run(r) should have run the methods that we just
> attached, but it's not. I must be missing something here. Please
> enlighten me.
> 
Should not tee be subclassing test, not unittest.TestCase?

regards
 Steve
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