We *could* just rename csv.py to csvimp.py


On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 6:19 PM Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net> wrote:

> On 12/04/2021 00:00, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> > On 11/04/2021 23:55, kuba....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Hi Dan,
> >>
> >> Yes, I am able to reproduce the same problem using the command line if I
> >> invoke the csv_test.py script.
> >
> > I see it too. I'm in it. In the meanwhile:
> >
> > bin/python -m pytest beangulp/importers/csv_test.py
> >
> > works (here at least).
>
> After thinking about it for minute: I am afraid there is no solution.
>
> The issue is that when you invoke the tests like this:
>
> python beangulp/importers/csv_test.py
>
> the directory where the scripts that is execute by the interpreter is
> located gets added as first entry of sys.path, thus, when the test code
> does:
>
> from beangulp.importers import csv
>
> Python goes to interpret benagulp/importers/csv.py
>
> which does
>
> import csv
>
> which, because of the entry in sys.path, resolves again to
> beangulp/importers/csv.py instead than to the standard library module.
>
> The change of sys.path is one of the main reasons why I don't make the
> tests modules I write work as stand alone scripts. Sometimes it gets in
> the way, like in this occasion, and sometimes it hides issues. Both
> pytest and unittest allow to easily load tests from specific modules,
> and I find this solution much cleaner.
>
> I think I'll be actually remove the
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     unittest.main()
>
> from this and other test modules.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
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