Hi All, On 07/11/2011 22:25, Michael Foord wrote:

On 07/11/2011 19:51, Mark Sienkiewicz wrote:

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On 11/07/11 12:53, Chris Withers wrote:

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The only hiccup is that nose doesn't respect a test_suite function by default, so I wrote a plugin to make it do the right thing:

Nose people: any idea *why* nose doesn't respect this method?

Mark has somewhat misdirected the thread here, either that or I've got in a muddle, anyway, the issue at hand is that nose ignores TestCase.countTestCases(). Any nose people know what that is?

unittest doesn't *require* you to write a test_suite either - the point of test_suite is to allow you to *customize* the set of tests that are collected automatically when a test module is loaded. So if you are providing a test_suite it is because the default automatic collection strategy isn't enough for you.

This is true now, but I'm pretty sure when unittest was introduced, you had to provide a test_suite function for test discovery to work. Of course, that's the dim and distant past and so doesn't really matter. However, the fact that nose ignores a test_suite method is a bug, plain and simple ;-) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk