On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:21, Tim Knapp <duffyd@kokorice.org> wrote:

Hi,

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?

What is the particular usecase? Zope has a very strong dependency
from DateTime in various places. So there is almost no compatible way for getting rid of it or for replacing it.
So why?

-aj