[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/lib/python/DateTime/tests -testDateTime.py:1.12.6.3

[Andreas Jung]

The tests in StructuredText use the following code...also not bad ;-)

package_dir = os.path.split(ST.__file__)[0]
regressions=os.path.join(package_dir, 'regressions')

-aj


--On Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002 11:33 -0400 "Fred L. Drake, Jr." 
<fdrake@acm.org> wrote:

>
> Andreas Jung writes:
>  > Isn't __file__ only defined when a module is imported but
>  > undefined when the file is run directly from the Python
>
> That's correct.
>
>  > interpreter. I agreee that there should be some more logic if
>  > you run the unittest on your own. But isn't the suggested
>  > way to run the tests through the testrunner?
>
> That's the suggested way, but it should be easy to run the tests
> individually as well.  I've modified the test module on the trunk and
> 2.6 branch to work both ways, and Shane immediately suggested a
> simpler way to do it:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> import os.path
> import sys
>
> try:
>     __file__
> except NameError:
>     __file__ = sys.argv[0]
>
> DATADIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>   -Fred
>
> --
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
>




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