Hi Chris, On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 12:45 +0000, Chris Withers wrote: > Tim Knapp wrote: > > I would like to override the DateTime.DateTime class within my > > functional tests. I have tried mocking (via mocker) and injecting the > > subclassed DateTime class into sys.modules (results in a > > TraversalError). The fartherest I've gotten is to set DateTime.DateTime > > = MySubclassedDateTime in my tests.py, which does work for the code > > 'within' the package(s) I'm testing but all the Zope core code (i.e. the > > instance created within PloneTestCase) is still referencing the global > > DateTime module. Has anyone successfully done this? > > You should take a look at testfixtures ;-) > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/testfixtures > > Specifically, the @replace decorator for one test or the Replacer (to > use in setUp and tearDown) > > NB: Make sure you replace it in the module where's *used*, not the > module where it comes from...
Thanks. One thing, though, it appears that testfixtures requires python 2.5 as it tries to import functools that was introduced in python 2.5. /me carries on trying to get it going :) -Tim > > cheers, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
