On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 22:24 +0200, Antonio Cuni wrote:
> Hi Holger, hi all
>
> On 16/10/10 22:56, holger krekel wrote:
>> Hi Anto, all,
>>
>> First of all, please keep asking "usage" questions or ask for examples
>> for practical / real life problems you have. They help me filling
>> the example sections of the new py.test docs with useful material :)
>
> sorry, I don't get it. Do you mean that I should describe my problem in
> more details? Ok, here is it.
Sorry for being unclear. I just meant that i welcome your mail
and encourage everyone to ask similar questions.
> I am developing a program using scrapy (to get data from web pages).
> Following the (bad?) habit of lot of frameworks, scrapy requires you to
> define some settings as global variables in a settings.py module. In
> particular, the LOG_FILE variable determine where the log is written.
>
> In my program, I would like the log file to be placed in a directory
> named after the date, e.g. '2010-10-17/myprogram.log'. So, my
> settings.py contains something like:
>
> LOGDIR = BASEDIR.join(str(datetime.date.today()))
> LOGDIR.ensure(dir=True)
> LOG_FILE = LOGDIR.join('myprogram.log')
>
> The issue is simply that I don't want to create the directory when I run
> the test, as the log file is not needed (and even if it were, I'd want it
> to be in a separate tmpdir, not in the main directory).
>
> All the other solutions I could think of require to change the code in
> scrapy itself, which I'd prefer not to do, of course.
>
>
>> Right, which is why i wouldn't like this to be totally convenient :)
>
> +1 :-)
>
>
>> uh, hacky :) also will break with pytest-2.0 as the py.test.config
>> will not be there outside of test runs.
>>
>> I drafted an example which should also work with py-1.3.1 as part of
>> the examples section of the upcoming pytest docs:
>>
>> http://codespeak.net/~hpk/pytest/example/misc.html
>>
>> Works for you?
>
> I've not tried it yet, but should work and it's much better than my
> current approach :-). Thanks!
good :)
cheers,
holger
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