On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  Brett Cannon wrote:
>  | It is up to the tests to clean up after themselves since they can be
>  | executed directly, so there is not magical location that gets cleaned
>  | up in case a test screws up. You can use test.test_support.TESTFN if
>  | you want a location. Or something from tempfile.
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>  I'm worried about the case when a test crashes and leave garbage
>  behind... that will crash future test runs.
>

Then don't crash on tests. =)

>  I guess I would delete the directory before using it, but I guess
>  somebody already had this problem and solved it, somehow. :-?

That's usually the other way to go about it. In your test_main() or
your setUp() methods you make sure everything is clean before you
start.

-Brett
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