[Zope-Coders] Unit testing: Reloading Python modules

[Tres Seaver]

I have a couple of questions for the PyUnit savvy among us:

   - Why isn't the 'unittestgui' module included in Python2.1?

   - Is there anything wrong with Steve Purcell's "import
     isolation" strategy, as outlined at:

      <http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/notes/reloading.html>

     It looks like we should be able to use his RollbackImporter
     within utilities/testrunner.py to reduce some of the global
     side effect problems.

BTW, I am seeing another weird unittest failure on the head:

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FAIL: testExprExplicitDeny (testSecurity.SecurityTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/zope/Zope-head/lib/python/AccessControl/tests/testSecurity.py", line 137, in testExprExplicitDeny
     assert 0, 'Did not deny attribute access'
AssertionError: Did not deny attribute access
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Ran 1498 tests in 422.357s

FAILED (failures=1)

I don't see any checkouts within AccessControl recently;  anyone
have any clues what this is?

Tres.
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