python unittests, do I need to import from the tests/__init__.py?

Question

I have my code organized like this:

base_project_dir/src /tests /test1.py /test2.py

in test1.py and test2.py I have the classes extending unittest.TestCase

according to python API doc, I should be able to run

python -m unittest tests from base dir and run all tests. but doing so shows that it finds 0 tests. so I added from test1 import * from test2 import *

into tests/__init__.py

now the above command works. but when I want to run individual tests, it sources the module init, which forcefully run all tests.

what is the correct way to organize this?

thanks Yang

Answer 1

Try this in your main project dir:

python -m unittest discover -v

This way you don't change the location for your relative imports. When you do python -m unittest tests it switches to this directory first and then can't import the projects code anymore.