How to write a unittest with setUpClass & tearDownClass in Python 2.3

Question

I am trying to write unittests in python 2.3. I've got everything working accept the class level setUp and tearDown function. I've tried to look online but am not able to find a way to define these in a python 2.3 unittest case.

Hence, is it possible to have setUpClass() & tearDownClass() in a python 2.3 testcase? If yes, how do I go about doing that?

Answer 1

According to the Python 2.3 standard library documentation , unittest.TestCase subclassing should work in the same way it works in more recent versions of the language.

import unittest

class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        'Do stuff to set up before each test'

    def tearDown(self):
        'Do stuff to tear down after each test'

If there was something more specific that you're trying to accomplish, could you describe it?

Answer 2

Try to use nose or other runner that is compatible with python 2.3; The python 2.3 runner didn't know about this methods (setUpClass/tearDownClass).

In python 2.3 to decorate a function you should do manually (no syntactic sugar) like:

class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUpClass(cls): ...
    setUpClass = classmethod(setUpClass)