Brett Cannon wrote:
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.
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.
Personally, I use the tempfile module to get a temporary directory and
do anything I need in there (see test_runpy.py or test_cmdline_script.py
for examples). That way, even if the test does manage to crash in a way
that bypasses the shutil.rmtree cleanup call (which is actually fairly
hard to do when the cleanup call is in a finally clause or a tearDown
method), it won't affect subsequent executions (although it may
accumulate clutter in the buildbot machine's temporary directories over
time).
Cheers,
Nick.
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