On 22 Mai, 17:32, Charles Smith <cts.private.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to subclass from unittest.TestCase. I observed something > interesting and wonder if anyone can explain what's going on... some > subclasses create null tests. > > I can create this subclass and the test works: > > class StdTestCase (unittest.TestCase): > blahblah > > and I can create this subsubclass and the test works: > > class aaaTestCase (StdTestCase): > moreblahblah > > but if I create this subsubclass (or any where the first letter is > capital): > > class AaaTestCase (StdTestCase): > differentblahblah > > the test completes immediately without any work being done. > > I suspect that the answer is in the prefix printed out by the test. I > have diffed both the long output (tests works, on the left) and the > short output (null test, on the right): > > test > (TC_02.TestCase_F_0000_ULLA05_xxxxxxxx_AM_Tx) ... < > test suite has <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<unittest.TestSuite > tests=[]>, test suite has <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<unittest.TestSuite tests=[]>, > > > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[]>, > > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0000_ULLA05_xxxxxxxx_AM > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0000_ULLA05_xxxxxxxx_AM > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0001_ULLA10_xxxxxxxx_AM > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0001_ULLA10_xxxxxxxx_AM > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0002_ULLA20_xxxxxxxx_AM > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0002_ULLA20_xxxxxxxx_AM > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0003_ULLA05_xxxxxxxx_UM > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0003_ULLA05_xxxxxxxx_UM > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0005_ULLA10_xxxxxxxx_UM > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0005_ULLA10_xxxxxxxx_UM > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0006_ULLA20_xxxxxxxx_UM | > <unittest.TestSuite tests=[<TC_02.TestCase_F_0006_ULLA20_xxxxxxxx_UM > <unittest.TestSuite > tests=[]>]> < > > > ----------> test_api_socket:the address specified is: 127.0.0.1 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Ran 0 tests in 0.000s > > > OK > > I see an empty test somehow gets sorted to the beginning of the list. > How could that be a result of whether the first letter of the class is > capitalized or not? > > Thanks in advance... > cts > > --------------------------------------------------------http://www.creative-telcom-solutions.de
Unfortunately, the side-by-side diff didn't come out so well ... --------------------------------------- http://www.creative-telcom-solutions.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
