This question pertains to PyUnit, esp. unittest.TestCase subclasses. Does anyone know of a way from within the TestCase tearDown() method to determine whether the current test succeeded or not?
What I'm after is a specialized clean-up approach for error/failure cases. This is somewhat related to some earlier threads in this group about using fixtures across test invocations. I'm functionally testing a system that uses a database. Successful tests are guaranteed to restore the system's data fixtures to initial state, but when tests fail or error-out we want to do a brute-force re-initialization of the server so downstream tests can continue. This re-initialization takes time so we don't want to do it in every tearDown(), just on error/ failure tearDown()'s. TIA, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
