[TIP] Meta-test methods...

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 12:47:46 PDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:28 PM,  <laidler at stsci.edu> wrote:
>
>>Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:10:28 -0400
>>From: testing-in-python-bounces at lists.idyll.org (on behalf of Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>)
>>On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Yes, nose supports test generators. They're the balls.
>
> Complete with elaborate ball gowns and dancing?
>
>>
>>See:
>>loadTestsFromGenerator
>>loadTestsFromGeneratorMethod
>>in:
>>http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/source/browse/trunk/nose/loader.py
>
>
> Do the names of the generated tests come out right yet?
>
> Last time I played with this (last summer), the names came out
> right in verbose mode, but wrong in the actual error report
> for failing tests. There was a workaround but it was non-intuitive,
> at least to me.
> (See http://groups.google.com/group/nose-users/browse_thread/thread/9187b00ff3e75eba/d85fa52d81a85971?lnk=gst&q=laidler#d85fa52d81a85971)
>
> Vicki

He said this was a bug and to file it, did he fix it?



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