Re: [Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On 21 Feb, 12:30, Virgil Dupras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi devs, 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? I have usually seen a lot of tests implemented like this:

Re: [Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Virgil Dupras
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,

Re: [Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Guido van Rossum wrote: I don't think so. You could create a directory in setUp method by using tempfile.mkdtemp and then remove it in tearDown. Specifically, clean it up with shutil.rmtree() And make sure you have closed all files before you rmtree() the directory. Otherwise the unit