[Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

[Vincent Davis]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Steve Willoughby <steve at alchemy.com> wrote:

> The unit test methods all take message arguments so if you just
> want to customize the reported error, that's easily done.
>
> something like:
>  self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v, "Failure with key "+k)
>
> That's easiest.  If you really want a separate test for each, you
> may want to create a factory function which will generate the individual
> test methods when the testcase object is created.
>
> --steve


Looks like Steve answered the question you had for me,
 "self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v, "Failure with key "+k)" I think
this is the best(how I would do it) solution, 1 test for files with a
meaningful report as to which file is the problem.

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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Steve Willoughby <steve at alchemy.com> wrote:

> The unit test methods all take message arguments so if you just
> want to customize the reported error, that's easily done.
>
> something like:
>  self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v, "Failure with key "+k)
>
> That's easiest.  If you really want a separate test for each, you
> may want to create a factory function which will generate the individual
> test methods when the testcase object is created.
>
> --steve
>
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