Georg Schmid wrote: > I've just started working with unittests and already hit a snag. I > couldn't find out how to implement a setup function, that is executed > only _once_ before all of the tests. Specifically, I need this for > testing my database interface, and naturally I don't want to create a > new database in-memory and fill it with example data for every single > test case. > Obviously I could simply execute that setup function separately from > the unittesting procedure, but then there'd be no point in > implementing all my unittests in a clean manner in the first place, > apart from further problems arising due to how my IDE (Eric4) picks > test cases from project files. > Perhaps I missed something about the concept of TestSuites. Thanks in > advance!
Why don't you simply store the state of the DB being set-up somewhere (globally for example), and only execute the db-setup-code (inside setUp of course) depending on the value of that variable? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
