By they way you shouldn't need to use str(file) as I did. Unlessit is not a string already. Bad habit. I am used to numbers vincet
On Thursday, May 6, 2010, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: > I can't think of a way to do what you ask, without defining a test for each. > ButI think what you might actually want is the define the error message to > report which one failed. ie, it's one test with a meaningful error message. > 'Failed to load' + str(file)+' '+ str(k)+', '+str(v)I am not ecpert on > unittests > > > > > > Vincent Davis > 720-301-3003 > > vinc...@vincentdavis.net > > my blog <http://vincentdavis.net> | > LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentdavis> > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Damon Timm <damont...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi - am trying to write some unit tests for my little python project - > I had been hard coding them when necessary here or there but I figured > it was time to try and learn how to do it properly. > > I've read over Python's guide > (http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html) but I am having a hard > time understanding how I can apply it *properly* to my first test case > ... > > What I am trying to do is straightforward, I am just not sure how to > populate the tests easily. Here is what I want to accomplish: > > # code > import unittest > from mlc.filetypes import * # the module I am testing > > # here are the *correct* key, value pairs I am testing against > TAG_VALUES = ( > ('title', 'Christmas Waltz'), > ('artist', 'Damon Timm'), > ('album', 'Homemade'), > ) > > # list of different file types that I want to test my tag grabbing > capabilities > # the tags inside these files are set to match my TAG_VALUES > # I want to make sure my code is extracting them correctly > FILES = ( > FLACFile('data/lossless/01 - Christmas Waltz.flac'), > MP3File('data/lossy/04 - Christmas Waltz (MP3-79).mp3'), > OGGFile('data/lossy/01 - Christmas Waltz (OGG-77).ogg'), > MP4File('data/lossy/06 - Christmas Waltz (M4A-64).m4a'), > ) > > class TestFiles(unittest.TestCase): > > # this is the basic test > def test_values(self): > '''see if values from my object match what they should match''' > for file in FILES: > for k, v in TAG_VALUES: > self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v) > > This test works, however, it only runs as *one* test (which either > fails or passes) and I want it to run as 12 different tests (three for > each file type) and be able to see which key is failing for which file > type. I know I could write them all out individually but that seems > unnecessary. > > I suspect my answer lies in the Suites but I can't wrap my head around it. > > Thanks! > > Damon > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
