Pyunit skip setUp and tearDown methods for a test

Question

Is it possible to skip the setUp and tearDown functions for a test..? Please let me know how. Thank you

Answer 1

The only way to do this without writing another test class with different setUp and tearDown methods seems to be to overwrite the run method of TestCase. You can either rewrite it totally or try this shorter version (only for the setUp, but you can easily extend it to support tearDown too):

class MyTestCase(unitest.TestCase):
    def run(self, result=None):
        if self._testMethodName == 'testWithoutSetup':
            (old_setUp, self.setUp) = (self.setUp, lambda : None)
            try:
                super(MyTestCase, self).run(result)
            finally:
                self.setUp = old_setUp
        else:
            super(MyTestCase, self).run(result)

What I do is I test if the method being tested is named testWithoutSetup, and if it is, I temporaly replace the setUp method with a function that does nothing.

Note that I only tested with Python 3.3, and it may work only for this version.