[Zope-Coders] Unit testing issues

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "MTK" == Matthew T Kromer <matt@zope.com> writes:

  MTK> Testrunner is running some test which is doing something to
  MTK> Zope.app() I think which is screwing me up when I'm importing
  MTK> Zope.  I haven't yet figured out a good way of isolating that;
  MTK> I was considering looking to see if maybe there ought to be
  MTK> some support for closing down the root database and reopening
  MTK> it, but that feels like some kind of overkill...

Here's a little more information about why one specific test is
failing.  I don't understand what's happening at all:

testZEO.ZEOFileStorageTests runs a test method defined in
ZODB.tests.BasicStorage -- getSerial().  This test should be a no-op
for ZEO, because ClientStorage doesn't define getSerial().  The first
thing that the test does is
  
    if not hasattr(self._storage, 'getSerial'):
        return

Well, if ZEO gets run at the end of the test, the hasattr succeeds.
I printed the repr of self._storage.getSerial and it was:
 
    <Python Method object at 0x9202000>

What's a Python Method object?  And how did it get in my instance?

Jeremy