Question

nosetest is the default test framework in Turbogeras 2.0. The application has a websetup.py module that initialise the database. I use mysql for my development and production environment and websetup works fine, but nosetest uses sqlite on memory and when it tries to initialise the DB sends an error:

TypeError: SQLite Date, Time, and
DateTime types only accept Python
datetime objects as input.

I’ve detected when this happens and is in the import fase:

csvreader = csv.reader(open('res/products.csv'), delimiter=",", quotechar="'")
for row in csvreader:
    p = model.Product(row[1], row[2], row[3], row[4] + ".jpg")
    # Even tried to convert the date to a sqlalchemy type
    # need to put a conditional here, when testing I don't care this date
    import sqlalchemy
    dateadded = sqlalchemy.types.DateTime(row[5])
    p.dateAdded = dateadded
    p.brand_id = row[6]
    p.code = row[3]

    ccat = model.DBSession.query(model.Category)\
        .filter(model.Category.id==int(row[8]) + 3).one()

    p.categories.append(ccat)

    p.normalPrice = row[9]
    p.specialPrice = row[10]
    p.discountPrice = row[11]

    model.DBSession.add(p)

How can I tell when nosetest is running? I’ve try:

if globals().has_key('ModelTest'):

and

if vars().has_key('ModelTest'):

The first one with no results and the second one with error

Answer 1

Presumably if nose is running, the ‘nose’ top-level module will have been imported. You should be able to test that with

if 'nose' in sys.modules:
    print "Nose is running, or at least has been imported!"
    #or whatever you need to do if nose is running

Of course this is not a foolproof test, which assumes that there’s no other reason why nose would be imported.