[Pyunit-interest] Argument passing question

[Russell S. <ras...@mn...>]

Hi,

I am evaluating PyUnit for a testing framework I need at work.  I'm running
into one small problem.  One of our requirements is to execute each test
once for each file in a rather large set of input files.  Ideally, I need a
mechanism to iterate over the files in the file set, and execute each test
suite once (and subsequently, each test case within the suite) once for the
given file.  I don't see any real hooks to pass arguments to the test suite
or test case.

My initial hopes were dashed when I found that both TestSuite.Run() and
TextTestRunner.Run() both directly call the test rather than calling a an
overridable method to do so.  That would have given me a perfect hook to
push one or more values into the target before executing it.

Can I do this via some trickery with a customized TestLoader?  How have
others approached this problem?  I hope the answer is not to code a unique
test case for each combination of test case and input file - the size (as
well as the subsequent effort to maintain and extend) would be overwhelming.

Thanks in advance.

Russ