Avoid setUpClass to run every time for nose cherry picked tests

Question

This is my tests class, in mymodule.foo:

class Some TestClass(TestCase):

  def setUpClass(cls):
    # Do the setup for my tests

  def test_Something(self)
    # Test something

  def test_AnotherThing(self)
    # Test another thing

  def test_DifferentStuff(self)
    # Test another thing

I'm running the tests from Python with the following lines:

tests_to_run = ['mymodule.foo:test_AnotherThing', 'mymodule.foo:test_DifferentStuff']
result = nose.run(defaultTest= tests_to_run)

(This is obviously a bit more complicated and there's some logic to pick what tests I want to run)

Nose will run just the selected tests, as expected, but the setUpClass will run once for every test in tests_to_run. Is there any way to avoid this?

What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to run some dynamic set of tests while using nose in a Python script (not from the command line)

Answer 1

As @jonrsharpe mentioned, setupModule is what I was after: it will run just once per the whole module where my tests reside.