Help needed with unittest and global

[Ian]

On 09/01/2011 19:53, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ian Hobson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to develop a PyQt application, and I want to unittest it.
>>
snip
>> D:\work\ian>python testAll.py
>> E
>> ======================================================================
>> ERROR: test001_walkingSkeleton (testCubic.testCubic)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "D:\work\ian\testCubic.py", line 8, in test001_walkingSkeleton
>> app.processEvents() # fails
>> NameError: global name 'app' is not defined
>>
>
> You have two global variables called app, one is in the testCubic 
> module and the other is in the testAll.py script.  They do not 
> automatically refer to the same thing.
>
> To use a global from another module, you can either do an import, or 
> you can pass it as an argument.  But beware of mutual imports.
>
> DaveA
>
Thanks David, I found 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2002-November/018353.html and
created a shared module that both modules can import.

Then I refer to shared.app, no use of global and it works as desired.

I am on to the next step - actually running my code.

Regards
Ian