Re: [Matplotlib-users] @image_comparison decorator and unittests

2015-07-30 Thread Thomas Caswell
Paul Hobson expressed interest in making it easier to use the image comparison tests out side of the mpl test suite Tom On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 9:28 AM Fabien fabien.mauss...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, is it possible to use the @image_comparison decorator for tests generated within a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] @image_comparison decorator and unittests

2015-07-30 Thread Jens Nielsen
Thomas Robitailles pytest image comparison plugin might also be of interest https://github.com/astrofrog/pytest-mpl Jens tor. 30. jul. 2015 kl. 14.43 skrev Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com: Paul Hobson expressed interest in making it easier to use the image comparison tests out side of the

[Matplotlib-users] @image_comparison decorator and unittests

2015-07-30 Thread Fabien
Hi all, is it possible to use the @image_comparison decorator for tests generated within a unittest.TestCase class? With my attempts so far the decorator was indeed instanicated at run time but the test was not called, i.e. the test would allways pass... Running the test with decorator from

Re: [Matplotlib-users] @image_comparison decorator and unittests

2015-07-30 Thread Paul Hobson
Fabien, The @image_comparison operator is still somehwat of a black box for me. But I can confirm your observation that it only works on top-level test functions, not within a class. It's on my long, and slowly shifting backlog of things to try to improve. -paul On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:47

Re: [Matplotlib-users] @image_comparison decorator and unittests

2015-07-30 Thread Fabien
Thank you all for your replies. It's not an urgent problem: 1. Jens gave us a link to an existing third party lib, althought it's not clear to me how it will work without pytest (i.e. with standard unittest). 2. My workaround is simply to use top level test functions as you suggest, and the