Deriving a class from TestCase throws two errors

Question

I have some basic setup/teardown code that I want to reuse in a whole bunch of unit tests. So I got the bright idea of creating some derived classes to avoid repeating code

Answer 1

In BaseController's __init__ you need to call unittest.TestCase's __init__ just like you did in TestMyController.

The call to construct a TestCase from the framework may be passing an argument. The best way to handle this for deriving classes is:

class my_subclass(parentclass):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
        parentclass.__init__(self, *args, **kw)
        ...