On 2/21/08, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Virgil Dupras wrote: > > 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? > > > The tempfile module provides some useful tools for making individual > files that clean themselves up, but individual tests are currently > pretty much left to fend for themselves as far as cleaning up temporary > directories. This can be done using the setUp/tearDown methods of the > test case (as Giampaolo described), or more directly using context > managers (that latter is obviously only common in tests added for 2.6/3.0) > > Something to consider would be to relocate the temp_dir() context > manager from test_cmd_line_script [1] to test.test_support and use that. > That context manager should be able to clean up for you no matter what > you put in the temporary directory. The major downside of that approach > is that test_support would end up depending on yet more modules being > available for import (shutil and tempfile in this case), which isn't > hugely desirable for test infrastructure). A way around that may be to > guard the imports and define a dummy context manager that raises > TestSkipped if either import fails. > > (If you do come up with a patch to relocate temp_dir(), put it up as a > separate tracker item and add me to the nosy list for it)
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