[TIP] I have some data files I want to use in my tests -- how do I specify where they are?

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Sun Dec 20 08:46:29 PST 2009


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:43:19AM -0500, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I'm writing some code to extract and yield some attachments out of
> email messages.  I have a file named email_parsers.py and another file
> in a tests/ subdirectory named test_email_parsers.py
> 
> I have a few email messages saved as text files. These files are in
> that tests/ directory.
> 
> In my test code, I want to know how to open those email files.  Should
> I use something like os.dirname(__file__)?

that's what I use -- I calculate everything relative to the Python file using
the data.

> I know I won't always run my tests from the tests/ subdirectory

...so this does't matter :)

--titus
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