[Zope-Coders] Help with Unit Testing: safe imports

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@alum.mit.edu
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:18:43 -0400


>>>>> "CD" == Casey Duncan <casey@zope.com> writes:

  CD> We need a unit testing "Best Practices" wiki or something. This
  CD> is making my brain hurt ;^)

I can't even remember why the import isn't at the module level.  It
seems like the most natural choice.

With test.py (Zope 3 / StandaloneZODB), if there is an error during
module import, it prints a traceback and continues.  If you use the -d
flag, it will fail on the ImportError.

Jeremy