zope.testing

StartUpFailure.shortDescription() fails with AttributeError

Bug #221151 reported by Marius Gedminas on 2008-04-23

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	zope.testing	Fix Released	Medium	Roman Joost
	zope.testrunner	Fix Released	Medium	Tres Seaver

Bug Description

StartUpFailure subclasses unittest.TestCase, but doesn't call its __init__, which eventually results in
this error when a test suite containing a StartUpFailure object gets passed to the real unittest.TextTestRunner

> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "setup.py", line 47, in <module>
> 'zope.testing',
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
> dist.run_commands()
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
> self.run_command(cmd)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command
> cmd_obj.run()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 119, in run
> self.with_project_on_sys_path(self.run_tests)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 101, in with_project_on_sys_path
> func()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 130, in run_tests
> testLoader = loader_class()
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 768, in __init__
> self.runTests()
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 805, in runTests
> result = self.testRunner.run(self.test)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 705, in run
> test(result)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 437, in __call__
> return self.run(*args, **kwds)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 433, in run
> test(result)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 437, in __call__
> return self.run(*args, **kwds)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 433, in run
> test(result)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 281, in __call__
> return self.run(*args, **kwds)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 247, in run
> result.startTest(self)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 649, in startTest
> self.stream.write(self.getDescription(test))
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 642, in getDescription
> return test.shortDescription() or str(test)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 232, in shortDescription
> doc = self._testMethodDoc
> AttributeError: 'StartUpFailure' object has no attribute '_testMethodDoc'

This is a problem when you want to use zope.testing's test finding helpers to implement 'python setup.py test'.

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Tres Seaver (tseaver) wrote on 2010-05-10:

I can verify that 'StartupFailure.__init__' still doesn't call the base class '__init__' on the zope.testrunner trunk.

Changed in zope.testing:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

Roman Joost (romanofski) on 2010-06-16

Changed in zope.testing:
assignee:	nobody → Roman Joost (romanofski-two)

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Christian Theune (ctheune) wrote on 2010-06-16:

Marius: can you give a bit more information on how to reproduce this so we can write a test case? (or even better: give us a test case? :) )

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote on 2010-06-16:

failing test that reproduces the problem Edit (498 bytes, text/plain)

Here's a failing test that reproduces the problem.

(I'm extremely unhappy with putting it inside the already-horribly-too-long class docstring, but refactoring the test suite would just muddy the waters at this point, and I'm not up to it.)

Tres Seaver (tseaver) on 2010-06-16