Thanks for the quick response.  The division of labor is exactly the
workaround I discovered, too.  It actually is a good idea for my work for
other reasons.  But, I thought I ought to learn what was really going on,
since it will probably come up again some other place.

Thanks again.

-robert

<quote who="Eric Promislow"> 
>  It's due to an interaction between the way the Python debugger
>  works, and the way unittest.py works.
> 
>  Visual Python and Komodo both provide graphical front-ends over
>  bdb.py, as do all the other Python debuggers I'm aware of.
>  When you run one of these, __main__ is actually set to bdb,
>  not the program you're trying to debug.  bdb.py does some
>  magic with the symbol table and call stack to stay out of
>  the way, but it doesn't change the value of __main__.
> 
>  Then, unittest filters the attributes of the module to debug,
>  looking for any subclasses of unittest.TestCase.  You
>  provided one, but bdb provides zero.  The solution I would
>  have liked was to be able to say
> 
>      unittest.main(module=<me, not that module called __main__>)
> 
>  but there is no construct.
> 
>  So I did a workaround, and broke your code into two pieces:
> 
>  # innertest.py
> 
>  import unittest
> 
>  class Test_1(unittest.TestCase):
>          """Will print 'Test Ran' if successful."""
>          def test_it(self):
>                  """If you see this message, the test ran."""
>                  print 'Test Ran'
> 
>  # testTest.py
> 
>  import unittest
>  import innerTest
> 
>  if (__name__ == '__main__'):
>          print 'Should see "Ran 1 test", but with debug will see "Ran 0
>  tests".' unittest.main(module=innerTest)
> 
> 
>  Not perfect, but this should help you get going.
> 
>  - Eric
> 
>  On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:49:24PM -0700, Robert Ferrell wrote:
> > I'm using PyUnit (unittest) for testing.  When I run with debugging
> > the tests do not run.  If I choose "Start Without Debugging" the tests
> > run fine.  What gives?
> >
> > thanks,
> > -robert
> >
> > Here's a script that shows the problem.  Put this into a Visual Studio
> > project and choose "Debug|Start".  Then "Debug|Start Without
> > Debugging". In the first case, test does not run (an error), in the
> > second case test does run.
> >
> > ====testTest.py====
> > """
> > Toy example showing problem when using unittest in Visual Python. When
> > run with the debugger, test does not run.  When run without debugging,
> > test is run properly.  To see the problem, in Visual Studio/Visual
> > Python, 1. Choose Debug|Start, and notice "Ran 0 tests"
> > 2. Choose Debug|Start Without Debugging, and notice "Ran 1 test" """
> >
> > import unittest
> >
> > class Test_1(unittest.TestCase):
> > 	"""Will print 'Test Ran' if successful."""
> > 	def test_it(self):
> > 		"""If you see this message, the test ran."""
> > 		print 'Test Ran'
> >
> > if (__name__ == '__main__'):
> > 	print 'Should see "Ran 1 test", but with debug will see "Ran 0
> > tests".' unittest.main()
> >
> >
> >
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