[TIP] Hi, beginner nose question

Pete pfein at pobox.com
Tue Nov 20 06:25:02 PST 2007


On Tuesday November 20 2007 5:10:08 am iain duncan wrote:
> What if, for functional or integration tests, I want to run some fixture
> house keeping once *per* class, before and after all that classes tests?
> Say to store counters and what not in the classes namespace as static
> variables or class variables? Basically I wish as a naive newbie, that
> there was a third layer of setup/teardown. I figured out I could:

I'm also new to nose, but it looks like setup_class & teardown_class do what 
you want.  There are a few ways to spell those, see "Test classes" at 
http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/wiki/WritingTests

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