Hi Holger, hi all
On 16/10/10 22:56, holger krekel wrote:
> Hi Anto, all,
>
> First of all, please keep asking "usage" questions or ask for examples
> for practical / real life problems you have. They help me filling
> the example sections of the new py.test docs with useful material :)
sorry, I don't get it. Do you mean that I should describe my problem in more
details? Ok, here is it.
I am developing a program using scrapy (to get data from web pages). Following
the (bad?) habit of lot of frameworks, scrapy requires you to define some
settings as global variables in a settings.py module. In particular, the
LOG_FILE variable determine where the log is written.
In my program, I would like the log file to be placed in a directory named
after the date, e.g. '2010-10-17/myprogram.log'. So, my settings.py contains
something like:
LOGDIR = BASEDIR.join(str(datetime.date.today()))
LOGDIR.ensure(dir=True)
LOG_FILE = LOGDIR.join('myprogram.log')
The issue is simply that I don't want to create the directory when I run the
test, as the log file is not needed (and even if it were, I'd want it to be in
a separate tmpdir, not in the main directory).
All the other solutions I could think of require to change the code in scrapy
itself, which I'd prefer not to do, of course.
> Right, which is why i wouldn't like this to be totally convenient :)
+1 :-)
> uh, hacky :) also will break with pytest-2.0 as the py.test.config
> will not be there outside of test runs.
>
> I drafted an example which should also work with py-1.3.1 as part of
> the examples section of the upcoming pytest docs:
>
> http://codespeak.net/~hpk/pytest/example/misc.html
>
> Works for you?
I've not tried it yet, but should work and it's much better than my current
approach :-). Thanks!
ciao,
Anto
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