When I import a class with parent unittest.TestCase, the tests in that class run. Why is this?
Background: I have functions in one class with parent unittest.TestCase that I want to import into another class, but I won't be able to if importing it also runs those tests.
These answers did not solve the problem
Stop unittest from running code from import module
Run Python unittest when only TestCase imported
Example:
test.py
import unittest
from other_test import OtherTest
class Test(unittest.TestCase):
def test(self):
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
other_test.py
import unittest
class OtherTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test(self):
self.fail("Why does this run?")```
running python test.py in same folder as these two scripts yields
F.
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FAIL: test (other_test.OtherTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "other_test.py", line 7, in test
self.fail("Why does this run?")
AssertionError: Why does this run?
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Ran 2 tests in 0.001s
FAILED (failures=1)
Summary: Why does the failing test run and how do I import the OtherTest class without running its tests?
