Actually, now I think about it, i had a couple of reasons:

- easy to start with (no separeate installation is i remember
correctly)
- no decision required about which database (mysql, postgress) to
learn
- no problem with removal of database (in memory), but that is between
runs, not during unit testing

Main reason that i want to remove the database, is that i create
tables dynamically, from another database with table definitions. To
run multiple tests I need to clear the database in between.

Lars


On Feb 24, 5:14 pm, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why are you testing with sqlite?
>
> Chris
>
> On 24/02/2012 14:32, lars van gemerden wrote:
>
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> > OK, the file isn't closed ofcourse and i can't figure out how to close
> > it. I'll try some more and if nothing works probably start a new
> > post ...
>
> > Thanks anyway, Chris
>
> > On Feb 24, 3:02 pm, lars van gemerden<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >> The recipe didn't work; it collects all tables, but no foreign keys
> >> and in the end removes nothing.
>
> >> I am using this in tearDown of unit tests. I have the DB in memory and
> >> even create a new engine in setUp ... maybe I am overlooking somthing
> >> dumb, but I don't get it.
>
> >> I'll try using a sqlite file and closing and deleting the file in
> >> tearDown.
>
> >> Cheers, Lars
>
> >> On Feb 24, 2:28 pm, lars van gemerden<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
> >>> Thanks very much,
>
> >>> Nothing is ever easy ... :-(
>
> >>> why not .. :-)
>
> >>> On Feb 24, 2:11 pm, Chris Withers<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
> >>>> On 24/02/2012 12:40, lars van gemerden wrote:
>
> >>>>> can it be possible that drop_all does not empty the database of there
> >>>>> are circular references between tables?
>
> >>>> You want:
>
> >>>>http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/UsageRecipes/DropEverything
>
> >>>> ...which is available here too:
>
> >>>>http://packages.python.org/mortar_rdb/api.html#mortar_rdb.drop_tables
>
> >>>> cheers,
>
> >>>> Chris
>
> >>>> PS:
>
> >>>>> I am using sqlite.
>
> >>>> Why? ;-)
>
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