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Importing module test data into python tests without explicitly setting PYTHONPATH?

I am trying to import a file (module) that contains test data into my python tests. I am keeping the data separate as it is a large python dictionary and the tests will be mmore readable with them in a separate place.
My test folder:
source/
tests/
elasticsearch_tests/
fixture_data.py
test_search.py
__init__.py
I run the tests with:
PYTHONPATH=./source python -m unittest discover -s tests
In test_search.py I attempt to import the data from fixture_data.py with:
from fixture_data import EVENT_DATA
It looks like fixture_data is not available on the path as it gives this error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fixture_data'
I can explicitly add the test folder to the python path and then the data is found and tests work with:
PYTHONPATH=./source:./tests/elasticsearch_tests python -m unittest discover -s tests
Is there a better way though - in which the tests will automatically pickup the test data module?

Python unittest does not run tests

I made a small project called demo, with a single test in it
import unittest
class Test(unittest.TestCase):
def testName1(self):
self.assertEqual(5+9, 14)
if __name__ == "__main__":
#import sys;sys.argv = ['', 'Test.testName']
unittest.main()
However, from command line
ThinkPad-T520:~/workspacep/demo$ python -m unittest
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.000s
OK
Why doesn't this work? In general, how can I run all unit tests from command line with a single line?
The structure of the directory is
demo
tests
demo_test1.py __init__.py

There are three gotcha's that I know of:
Your tests in your TestCases need to be named test_*
Your test files need to be named: test*.py (by default, you can change it with the -p flag when running the tests). e.g. test_demo1.py
Your tests folder needs to have an __init__.py file in it, or else it won't be considered a valid location to import from.
So, for #1, you need to rename the test to test_name_1. And for #2, there's two options:
A - Restructure your files like this:
demo
tests
__init__.py
test_demo1.py
Then run python -m unittest and it should find the test cases.
B - Just run it like: python -m unittest discover -p *test.py

I fought with the same exact problem a while ago and I solved it by using test discovery command.
python -m unittest discover -s .
You can pass in your test file pattern as well and a whole other options https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#test-discovery

You need to pass in a list of modules.
For example, if your test file is foo.py, then you can run python -m unittest foo.

For me (running tests from IntelliJ IDEA) I had to remove the class' 'Run configuration'. Earlier on I had wrongly imported the unittest as _pytest.unittest and ran the test class. Of course that didn't work.
I corrected the module import, but the 'run configuration' was still there, causing it to run as a Python script and not as 'Python tests'.

I had a similar issue and figured out that I had to run python3 -m unittest instead as I had forgotten python defaults to Python 2 on my system

How to run all tests with one shell command?

Suppose I've got a few modules with test cases derived from unittest.TestCase. All those modules reside in one package test:
test/
test_case1.py
test_case2.py
test_case3.py
I'd like to run all tests in all modules in test with one shell command. In order to do it I've added a new module test_all.py, which creates a TestSuite with all the test cases, and main:
def make_suite():
... # add test cases explicitly one by one
if __name__ == "__main__":
suite = make_suite()
unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite)
Now I wonder if there is a way to run all the test cases in test without making a TestSuite

Starting in Python 2.7, you can do something like this:
python -m unittest discover <test_directory>
Of course, all your test directories must contain an __init__.py file.
You can also use a tool like nose to run your tests.
See also:
How do I run all Python unit tests in a directory?

for f in ./test/test_case*.py; do python $f; done

Emulating "nosetests -w working-dir" behavior using py.test

I am porting a series of tests from nosetests + python unittest to py.test. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that py.test supports python unittests and running existing tests with py.test is just as easy as calling py.test instead of nosetests on the command line. However I am having problems with specifying the working directory for the tests. They are not in the root project dir but in a subdir. Currently the tests are run like this:
$ nosetests -w test-dir/ tests.py
which changes the current working directory to test-dir and run all the tests in tests.py. However when I use py.test
$ py.test test-dir/tests.py
all the tests in tests.py are run but the current working directory is not changed to test-dir. Most tests assume that the working directory is test-dir and try to open and read files from it which obviously fails.
So my question is how to change the current working directory for all tests when using py.test.
The are a lot of tests and I don't want to invest the time to fix them all and make them work regardless of the cwd.
Yes, I can simply do cd test-dir; py.test tests.py but I am used to working from the project root directory and don't want to cd every time I want to run a test.
Here is some code that may give you better idea what I am trying to achieve:
content of tests.py:
import unittest
class MyProjectTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def test_something(self):
with open('testing-info.txt', 'r') as f:
test something with f
directory layout:
my-project/
test-dir/
tests.py
testing-info.txt
And then when I try to run the tests:
$ pwd
my-project
$ nosetests -w test-dir tests.py
# all is fine
$ py.test ttest-dir/tests.py
# tests fail because they cannot open testing-info.txt

So this is the best I could come up with:
# content of conftest.py
import pytest
import os
def pytest_addoption(parser):
parser.addoption("-W", action="store", default=".",
help="Change current working dir before running the collected tests.")
def pytest_sessionstart(session):
os.chdir(session.config.getoption('W'))
And then when running the tests
$ py.test -W test-dir test-dir/tests.py
It's not clean but it will do the trick until I fix all the tests.

Does unittest allow single case/suite testing through "setup.py test"?

I'm a newbie when it comes to python unit testing, but I'm eager to learn!
I just read python setup.py test can run all suites derived from unittest classes. I wonder if I also can use setup.py to run a single suite and/or a single test case, maybe adding some modifier to the previous command like python setup.py tests suitename. If so, can you please point me to any docs/examples?

You guys are all wrong, setup.py test can be used with the -s option the same way python -m unittest does:
cd root_of_your_package
python setup.py test -s tests.TestClass.test_method

The setup.py test runner is rather limited; it only supports letting you specify a specific module. The documentation for the command-line switches is given when you use the --help switch:
python setup.py test --help
Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
[ ... cut ... ]
Options for 'test' command:
--test-module (-m) Run 'test_suite' in specified module
--test-suite (-s) Test suite to run (e.g. 'some_module.test_suite')
[ ... more cut ... ]
so python setup.py test -m your.package.tests.test_module would limit running the tests from the test_module.py file only.
All the test command does, really, is make sure your egg has been built already, extract the test_suite value from setup() metadata, configure a test loader that understands about zipped eggs, then run the unittest.main() function.
If you need to run a single test only, have already built your egg, are not running this with a zipped egg, then you can also just use the unittest command line interface, which does pretty much everything else:
python -m unittest yourpackage.tests.TestClass.test_method
would instruct unittest to only run a very specific test method.

setup.py test
setup.py test is not that flexible, but here's an alternative:
The unittest module can run specific test methods
From the Documentation on unittest
The unittest module can be used from the command line to run tests from modules, classes or even individual test methods:
python -m unittest test_module1 test_module2
python -m unittest test_module.TestClass
python -m unittest test_module.TestClass.test_method
You can pass in a list with any combination of module names, and fully qualified class or method names.
You can run tests with more detail (higher verbosity) by passing in the -v flag:
python -m unittest -v test_module
For a list of all the command-line options:
python -m unittest -h

in case of pytest run specific test:
python setup.py test --addopts tests/jobs/test_data_monitoring.py::TestDataMonitoring::test_dataframe__bulk_update

In case you use pytest for unit testing you can run a file directly by avoiding the setup.py file.
Running all tests for me is:
python setup.py test
Running a specific test:
pytest --pyargs path/to/test.py
Hope it helps.
(I know this post is already a bit old, but I came here looking for running a way to run pytest tests alone, figured it might be of use to someone)