Can one use the setUp block to store variables so that they can be used elsewhere in unit tests? I'm thinking that it's better to have variables created in another script and have it imported from within the unit test
#!/usr/bin/env python '''create knowledge base of strings by unit testing''' import unittest class TestPythonStringsTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): print '''setting up stuff for ''', __name__ s1 = 'single string' print dir(str) def testclass(self): '''test strings are of class str''' self.assertEqual(s1.__class__, str) if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main() -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Enterprise Linux Systems Engineer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list