The answer: While all tests should use the transaction-rollback trick, and it seems the sqlite3 handlers don't use it...
...the primary culprit turned out to be this: fixtures = ['countries'] Even though the tests run in an app with a fixture with a very short list of sample countries & regions... ...another app, higher up the food chain, has a "fixture" that contains all the database prep, with all the countries, designed to be loaded only once. The fix is of course renaming the shorter json file: fixtures = ['short_countries'] This problem represents two minor oversights in Django's architecture: Firstly, the original meaning of a "fixture" was _behavior_ shared by test cases. assertEqual() was a fixture, as was assertInvoiceGotMailed (). The first is generic and the second application-specific. Ruby on Rails stretched this definition by referring to the model objects available to tests as fixtures - that was a mistake. Database objects were supposed to be called "resources", in the original Smalltalk mileux. Enough said, and nobody's making a Federal case out of it. Nextly, the lookup for fixtures=[] should start in the current app. Django intends to be testable and modular, but your tests should not all break just because you suddenly plugged in a new module that came with a fixture that preempted your fixture. > -- > Phlip > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=.
