On 2/21/08, Virgil Dupras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Being a python dev newbie, I look in http://www.python.org/dev/ for > some guide to write unit tests in python and I can't find any. > Specifically, I'd like to know about files managements in tests. Is > every test expected to clean after itself, or is there an automatic > cleanup mechanism in place? Even more specifically, I'd like to create > a test for the proposed patch in http://bugs.python.org/issue2127 so I > need to create a subdir with non-ascii character in it, then connect > to a db in it. So, do I need to do the cleanup in the test? Is there a > special path I can write to that will automatically be cleaned up? If > not, wouldn't it be a good idea to have one? > > I guess I could find the answer in regrtest.py, but frankly, this unit > is a little bit overwhelming. > > If there is no guide, am I the only one to think it would be a good > idea to have one (Yeah, I could volunteer to write it)? > > > Virgil >
Oops, nevermind I ended up finding it at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-test.html and http://docs.python.org/lib/module-test.testsupport.html. I didn't expect to find it in the Python documentation itself. Sorry. Might I suggest adding a link to it in http://www.python.org/dev/? Virgil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com