Hi Vincent - Thanks for your input. Where would I put that string ? In the function's doctsring ? Or just as a print method ?
I have been looking online some more and it appears there may be a way to create some sort of generator ... it's still a little confusing to me, though. I was hoping there was an easier way. I can't imagine I am the first person with this task to accomplish ... Thanks, Damon On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: > By they way you shouldn't need to use str(file) as I did. Unlessit is > not a string already. Bad habit. I am used to numbers > vincet > > On Thursday, May 6, 2010, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: >> I can't think of a way to do what you ask, without defining a test for each. >> ButI think what you might actually want is the define the error message to >> report which one failed. ie, it's one test with a meaningful error message. >> 'Failed to load' + str(file)+' '+ str(k)+', '+str(v)I am not ecpert on >> unittests >> >> >> >> >> >> Vincent Davis >> 720-301-3003 >> >> vinc...@vincentdavis.net >> >> my blog <http://vincentdavis.net> | >> LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentdavis> >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Damon Timm <damont...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi - am trying to write some unit tests for my little python project - >> I had been hard coding them when necessary here or there but I figured >> it was time to try and learn how to do it properly. >> >> I've read over Python's guide >> (http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html) but I am having a hard >> time understanding how I can apply it *properly* to my first test case >> ... >> >> What I am trying to do is straightforward, I am just not sure how to >> populate the tests easily. Here is what I want to accomplish: >> >> # code >> import unittest >> from mlc.filetypes import * # the module I am testing >> >> # here are the *correct* key, value pairs I am testing against >> TAG_VALUES = ( >> ('title', 'Christmas Waltz'), >> ('artist', 'Damon Timm'), >> ('album', 'Homemade'), >> ) >> >> # list of different file types that I want to test my tag grabbing >> capabilities >> # the tags inside these files are set to match my TAG_VALUES >> # I want to make sure my code is extracting them correctly >> FILES = ( >> FLACFile('data/lossless/01 - Christmas Waltz.flac'), >> MP3File('data/lossy/04 - Christmas Waltz (MP3-79).mp3'), >> OGGFile('data/lossy/01 - Christmas Waltz (OGG-77).ogg'), >> MP4File('data/lossy/06 - Christmas Waltz (M4A-64).m4a'), >> ) >> >> class TestFiles(unittest.TestCase): >> >> # this is the basic test >> def test_values(self): >> '''see if values from my object match what they should match''' >> for file in FILES: >> for k, v in TAG_VALUES: >> self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v) >> >> This test works, however, it only runs as *one* test (which either >> fails or passes) and I want it to run as 12 different tests (three for >> each file type) and be able to see which key is failing for which file >> type. I know I could write them all out individually but that seems >> unnecessary. >> >> I suspect my answer lies in the Suites but I can't wrap my head around it. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Damon >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
