I tried to use setUpClass()
method for the first time in my life and wrote:
class TestDownload(unittest.TestCase):
def setUpClass(cls):
config.fs = True
and got:
Ran 0 tests in 0.004s
FAILED (errors=1)
Failure
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/unittest/suite.py", line 163, in _handleClassSetUp
setUpClass()
TypeError: setUpClass() missing 1 required positional argument: 'cls'
What does it mean and how to satisfy it?
You need to put a @classmethod
decorator before def setUpClass(cls)
.
class TestDownload(unittest.TestCase):
@classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
config.fs = True
The setupClass
docs are here and classmethod
docs here.
What happens is that in suite.py line 163 the setUpClass
gets called on the class (not an instance) as a simple function (as opposed to a bound method). There is no argument passed silently to setUpClass
, hence the error message.
By adding the @classmethod
decorator, you are saying that when TestDownload.setupClass()
is called, the first argument is the class TestDownload
itself.