New submission from Mark Roddy <markro...@gmail.com>: The TestLoader class in unittest.py has an attribute 'suiteClass' that is used to create instances of TestSuite object(s) in the process of loading tests. If it is desired to subclass the TestSuite class then consumers may set this attribute on a TestLoader object in order to override what TestSuite class gets instantiated (a pythonic version of the factory method pattern).
However, the loadTestsFromName() on the TestLoader class does not use this attribute to create TestSuite instances, and instead has a hard coded reference to the unittest.TestSuite class. This results in the base class being created instead of a possibly desired subclass that has been specified via this attribute. Solution for this issue is to change the loadTestsFromName() method to use the suiteClass attribute when creating TestSuite objects instead using a reference to the TestSuite class. Included is a patch that implements this behavior as well as two additional test for the test_unittest.py file which expose this issue if run against an unpatched version of unittest. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: unittest.patch keywords: patch messages: 92427 nosy: MarkRoddy severity: normal status: open title: TestLoader.loadTestsFromName does not use suiteClass attribute to create TestSuite instances type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14864/unittest.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6866> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
