[Pyunit-interest] How do you import a module with unit tests and then run them?

[Andrew P. L. <bs...@ma...>]

I'm guessing that I'm doing something obviously wrong, but darned if I can
figure it out.

I have a program called test_unittest.py (attached).  It runs; it passes.
Life is good.

So, now I have a program called test_unittest2.py (attached) which I want
to import test_unittest.py and run the unit tests.  What I wind up with:

<Big traceback omitted>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/unittest.py", line 451, in loadTestsFromName
    obj = getattr(obj, part)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'suite'

Clearly I've got some locals/globals namespace issue, but I don't know how
to fix it.

So, how do I get test_unittest2.py to call the tests in test_unittest.py
and run them correctly?  I am open to changing the original test code,
explicitly assigning stuff, etc. to make this work.  I would even use
execfile or the imp module if required.

Lest someone think that this is just a really stupid thing to do, I will
point out that the same issues arise if you try to use the python debugger
on a unittest as it also wants to import the module and then run the unit
tests.

Thanks,
-a

<Begin test_unittest.py>
#!/usr/bin/env python

import unittest

class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def checkBasic(self):
        assert 1 == 1

def suite():
    """Suite of testcases"""

    suitelist = []
    suitelist.append(unittest.makeSuite(MyTest, 'check'))
    return unittest.TestSuite(suitelist)

def main():
    unittest.main(defaultTest="suite")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
<End test_unittest.py>

<Begin test_unittest2.py>
#!/usr/bin/env python

import test_unittest

def main():
    test_unittest.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
<End test_unittest2.py>