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copied!<p>I have some basic setup/teardown code that I want to reuse in a whole bunch of unit tests. So I got the bright idea of creating some derived classes to avoid repeating code in every test class.</p> <p>In so doing, I received two strange errors. One, I cannot solve. Here is the unsolvable one:</p> <pre><code>AttributeError: 'TestDesktopRootController' object has no attribute '_testMethodName' </code></pre> <p>Here is my base class:</p> <pre><code>import unittest import twill import cherrypy from cherrypy._cpwsgi import CPWSGIApp class BaseControllerTest(unittest.TestCase): def __init__(self): self.controller = None def setUp(self): app = cherrypy.Application(self.controller) wsgi = CPWSGIApp(app) twill.add_wsgi_intercept('localhost', 8080, lambda : wsgi) def tearDown(self): twill.remove_wsgi_intercept('localhost', 8080) </code></pre> <p>And here is my derived class:</p> <pre><code>import twill from base_controller_test import BaseControllerTest class TestMyController(BaseControllerTest): def __init__(self, args): self.controller = MyController() BaseControllerTest.__init__(self) def test_root(self): script = "find 'Contacts'" twill.execute_string(script, initial_url='http://localhost:8080/') </code></pre> <p>The other strange error is:</p> <pre><code>TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given) </code></pre> <p>The "solution" to that was to add the word "args" to my <code>__init__</code> function in the derived class. Is there any way to avoid that?</p> <p>Remember, I have two errors in this one.</p>

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