Gustavo Narea wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> Why do unitest.TestCase grand-grandchildren not work?
>
> I've created a unittest.TestCase descendant, which contains the setUp() and
> tearDown() for testing some components of a web framework. Every
> application based on this framework should subclass this base class once,
> and the rest of the test cases must also subclass the base TestCase of the
> application (which is a direct descendant of my descendant of TestCase).
>
> But grandchildren of my TestCase don't work, and I get this weird error:
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/unittest.py", line 248, in run
> >     testMethod = getattr(self, self._testMethodName)
> > AttributeError: 'TestDatabaseGrandChildTesting' object has no
> > attribute '_testMethodName'
>
> Isn't it possible to use grand-grandchildren of unittest.TestCase?
>
> Please use this file to reproduce it: http://paste.turbogears.org/paste/4721
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Gustavo Narea.
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I could be wrong, but I think I saw this crossposted on the TIP list -
not sure which one was first.
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