setUp section in unit-tests seems to be ignored

Question

class MyTests(unittest.TestCase):

    def SetUp(self):
        """ Setting up expected default values """
        self.test = RandomTest()

    def testReturnsArrayWithTuples(self):
        result = self.test.next()  # Error
        self.assert_(len(result), 5)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

I have a basic test, but it fails with this error message:

AttributeError: 'MyTests' object has no attribute 'test'

Eclipse intellisense is showing me self.test though. What am I missing please?

Answer 1

Ok, its quite embarrassing, as it was just a typo. :)

def SetUp(self): has to be lowercase def setUp(self): in order to be found and executed.

I hope it prevents someone else chasing ghosts like I did.