New submission from Sergey Skripnick: "unittest discover" does add some directories to sys.path
later some modules can not work with modified sys.path Here module `pdb` is trying to import standard module `cmd` but does import `cmd` module from `tests` directory: "unittest discover" should not modify sys.path in any way. http://dpaste.com/2RYV8E0 $ mkdir /tmp/t $ cd /tmp/t $ mkdir tests $ mkdir tests/cmd $ touch tests/cmd/__init__.py $ echo "import pdb" > tests/test_nothing.py $ python -m unittest discover tests E ====================================================================== ERROR: test_nothing (unittest.loader.ModuleImportFailure) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ImportError: Failed to import test module: test_nothing Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 254, in _find_tests module = self._get_module_from_name(name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 232, in _get_module_from_name __import__(name) File "/tmp/t/tests/test_nothing.py", line 1, in <module> import pdb File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pdb.py", line 59, in <module> class Pdb(bdb.Bdb, cmd.Cmd): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Cmd' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 0.000s FAILED (errors=1) ---------- messages: 243681 nosy: redixin priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: "unittest discover" does modify sys.path versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24247> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
