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Title: _top_level_dir state leaks on defaultTestLoader
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 3.5
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Status: closed Resolution: duplicate
Dependencies: Superseder: unittest: _top_level_dir is incorrectly persisted between calls to different load_test methods
View: 15010
Assigned To: Nosy List: ZackerySpytz, rbcollins
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2014-11-07 06:05 by rbcollins, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg230770 - (view) Author: Robert Collins (rbcollins) * (Python committer) Date: 2014-11-07 06:05
TestProgram uses defaultTestLoader to load tests. Calling discover() on a TestLoader sets _top_level_dir. Calling discover with no top_level_dir implictly sets _top_level_dir but only the first time: the second time it is called with a different start_dir the prior one is used.

This leads to errors like:
======================================================================
ERROR: test_run_list_failed_import (testtools.tests.test_run.TestRun)
testtools.tests.test_run.TestRun.test_run_list_failed_import
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_StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/tests/test_run.py", line 175, in test_run_list_failed_import
    run.main, ['prog', 'discover', '-l', broken.package.base, '*.py'], out)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/testcase.py", line 420, in assertRaises
    self.assertThat(our_callable, matcher)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/testcase.py", line 431, in assertThat
    mismatch_error = self._matchHelper(matchee, matcher, message, verbose)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/testcase.py", line 481, in _matchHelper
    mismatch = matcher.match(matchee)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/matchers/_exception.py", line 108, in match
    mismatch = self.exception_matcher.match(exc_info)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/matchers/_higherorder.py", line 62, in match
    mismatch = matcher.match(matchee)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/testcase.py", line 412, in match
    reraise(*matchee)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/matchers/_exception.py", line 101, in match
    result = matchee()
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/testcase.py", line 965, in __call__
    return self._callable_object(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/run.py", line 413, in main
    stdout=stdout)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/run.py", line 208, in __init__
    self.parseArgs(argv)
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/run.py", line 252, in parseArgs
    self._do_discovery(argv[2:])
  File "/home/robertc/personal/testtools/testtools/run.py", line 368, in _do_discovery
    loaded = loader.discover(self.start, self.pattern, self.top)
  File "/home/robertc/.virtualenvs/testtools-2.7/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2/loader.py", line 353, in discover
    raise ImportError('Start directory is not importable: %r' % start_dir)
ImportError: Start directory is not importable: '/tmp/tmpac4uwI'


When a test tries to test the behaviour of TestProgram (or a subclass thereof).

The fix is straight forward: at the end of discover restore the value of _top_level_dir that it had at entry.
msg349512 - (view) Author: Zackery Spytz (ZackerySpytz) * (Python triager) Date: 2019-08-13 01:13
It seems that this issue is a duplicate of bpo-15010.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:58:09adminsetgithub: 67000
2021-11-27 11:55:01iritkatrielsetstatus: open -> closed
superseder: unittest: _top_level_dir is incorrectly persisted between calls to different load_test methods
resolution: duplicate
stage: resolved
2019-08-13 01:13:05ZackerySpytzsetnosy: + ZackerySpytz
messages: + msg349512
2014-11-07 06:05:42rbcollinssetcomponents: + Library (Lib)
versions: + Python 3.5
2014-11-07 06:05:12rbcollinscreate