André wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In the hope of perhaps contributing some additional unit tests for
> Python (thus contributing back to the community), I dove in the code
> and found something that should be simple but that I can not wrap my
> head around.
>
> In list_tests.py, one finds
> ===
> from test import test_support, seq_tests
>
> class CommonTest(seq_tests.CommonTest):
>
> def test_init(self):
> # Iterable arg is optional
> self.assertEqual(self.type2test([]), self.type2test())
> # etc.
> ===
>
> Wanting to figure out what the type2test() method does, I looked in
> seq_tests.py and found the following:
>
> ===
> class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
> # The type to be tested
> type2test = None
>
> def test_constructors(self):
> l0 = []
> l1 = [0]
> l2 = [0, 1]
>
> u = self.type2test()
> u0 = self.type2test(l0)
> u1 = self.type2test(l1)
> u2 = self.type2test(l2)
>
> # etc.
> ===
> No where do I find a definition for the type2test() method - other
> than seeing it as a class variable defined to be None by default. I
> looked in unittest.TestCase and did not see it anywhere.
>
> Am I missing something obvious? I would appreciate if someone could
> point me in the right direction.
Use grep ;)
CommonTest is not run standalone, it is used as a(n abstract) base class for
several other tests that override type2test.
E. g. in Lib/test/list_tests.py:
from test import test_support, seq_tests
class CommonTest(seq_tests.CommonTest):
...
And then in Lib/test/test_list.py:
from test import test_support, list_tests
class ListTest(list_tests.CommonTest):
type2test = list
...
Peter
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