James Westby <jw+deb...@jameswestby.net> added the comment: Hi,
I think this was misdiagnosed: from unittest.py in 2.6, loadTestFromName: elif hasattr(obj, '__call__'): test = obj() if isinstance(test, TestSuite): return test elif isinstance(test, TestCase): return TestSuite([test]) else: raise TypeError("calling %s returned %s, not a test" % (obj, test)) so it supports callables, such as the test_suite function that Rob is passing. Therefore I don't think this is a feature request, and "use load_tests" isn't an appropriate resolution. I haven't checked what 2.7 and later do, but going on the above my diagnosis of this is the following. 1. test_suite is correctly identified as a callable 2. It is called an returns a unittest.TestSuite 3. It is not matched as being a a TestSuite or a TestCase, and so the error is raised. The reason it is not matched is that when run as -m unittest, the unittest module is __main__, and so the TestSuite in the isinstance check is a unittest.TestSuite against a __main__.TestSuite, which won't match. Therefore I think this is a legitimate bug, in at least 2.6. Thanks, James ---------- nosy: +james-w _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7501> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com