Python, unit test - Pass command line arguments to setUp of unittest.TestCase

Question

I have a script that acts as a wrapper for some unit tests written using the Python unittest module. In addition to cleaning up some files, creating an output s

Answer 1

If you define the attributes in the init method, then you can simply pass them all in the constructor like this..

import unittest
import helpspot

class TestHelpSpot(unittest.TestCase):
    "A few simple tests for HelpSpot"

    def __init__(self, testname, path, user, pword):
        super(TestHelpSpot, self).__init__(testname)
        self.path = path
        self.user = user
        self.pword = pword
....
....
....


if __name__ == '__main__':
    True

    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(TestHelpSpot("test_version", path, user, pword))    

    unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite)