Question

I would like to create a subclass of python’s unittest.Testcase called BasicTest. I would like each subclass of BasicTest to run the same routine in main. How can I accomplish this?

Example:

in basic_test.py:

class BasicTest(unittest.TestCase):

    ...


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Do optparse stuff
    unittest.main()



in some_basic_test.py:

class SomeBasicTest(BasicTest):
    ...

if __name__ == '__main__':
    #call the main in basic_test.py

Answer 1

# basic_test.py
class BasicTest(unittest.TestCase):

  @staticmethod
  def main():
     # Do optparse stuff
     unittest.main()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  BasicTest.main()



# some_basic_test.py
class SomeBasicTest(BasicTest):
   ...

if __name__ == '__main__':
  BasicTest.main()