I had not tried taking the sys.argv statement out of my code. You are correct: when using TestTextRunner, sys.argv does not need to be cleaned. I like the idea of a command line flag. It's probably a good idea to offer such a flag, even though it turns out it's not needed to run unit tests.
On Feb 25, 2:49 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not like the idea of having to specify the name of the app twice, > it breaks DRY. > > What about an additional command line flag that can tell whether to > strip sys.argv or not. This will keep backwards compatibility, and > also allow for scripts to have a simple sys.argv if required. > > web2py.py --clean-argv > > On this note, have you attempted to use unittest.TextTestRunner(...) > without the sys.argv=sys.argv[5:] > > I believe that TextTestRunner should work since it shouldn't look at > command line args. > > -Thadeus > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:37 PM, spiffytech <[email protected]> wrote: > > ot know any reason as to why web2py passes along args that it is > >> not using. However I think this could be beneficial in certain scripts > >> that need to rely on certain parameters, like I have a backup script > >> that relies on the app name, I can look at the -S arg to determine > >> what app I am currently working on for this scr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
