On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 08:26 -0700, Rescommues wrote:
> I am using pyramid 1.2b2 and have some unittests I'd like to run. But
> I can not get past the error below.
> I started my project with sqlalchemy scaffolding.
> I have created a simple unit tests (starting point actually) in
> tests.py which looks like this:

> import unittest
> from pyramid.config import Configurator
> from pyramid import testing

> class testBasic( unittest.TestCase ):
>     def setUp( self ):
>         self.config = testing.setUp( )

>     def tearDown( self ):
>         testing.tearDown( )

>     def test_first_last( self ):
>         pass

> In the errors it seems that something is wrong with
> "paster_plugins=['pyramid']" in setup.py.
> I should note that "python setup.py develop" executes successfully.

> This is the result when I run the test:

> (ENV2)rescommunes@snax ~/development/Shad $ python setup.py test -q
> running test
> running egg_info
> writing requirements to sha.egg-info/requires.txt
> writing Shad.egg-info/PKG-INFO
> writing top-level names to Shad.egg-info/top_level.txt
> writing dependency_links to Shad.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
> writing entry points to Shad.egg-info/entry_points.txt
> writing paster_plugins to Shad.egg-info/paster_plugins.txt
> reading manifest file 'Shad.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
> reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
> writing manifest file 'Shad.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
> running build_ext
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 51, in <module>
>     paster_plugins=['pyramid'],
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in
> run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in
> run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/test.py", line
> 121, in run
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/test.py", line
> 101, in with_project_on_sys_path
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/test.py", line
> 130, in run_tests
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/main.py", line 94, in __init__
>     self.parseArgs(argv)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/main.py", line 149, in parseArgs
>     self.createTests()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/main.py", line 158, in createTests
>     self.module)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 128, in
> loadTestsFromNames
>     suites = [self.loadTestsFromName(name, module) for name in names]
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 103, in
> loadTestsFromName
>     return self.loadTestsFromModule(obj)
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/test.py", line
> 34, in loadTestsFromModule
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 103, in
> loadTestsFromName
>     return self.loadTestsFromModule(obj)
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/test.py", line
> 34, in loadTestsFromModule
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 103, in
> loadTestsFromName
>     return self.loadTestsFromModule(obj)
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/test.py", line
> 34, in loadTestsFromModule
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 91, in
> loadTestsFromName
>     module = __import__('.'.join(parts_copy))
> ValueError: Empty module name

> Any suggestions would be great.
> Thank You.

> The default test runner is easily confused and outputs very poor error
> messages.  You might try using the Nose testrunner instead.  Do
> "easy_install nose" in your virtualenv, then run "setup.py nosetests"
> instead of "setup.py test".  It will likely fail, but it will provide a
> better error message.

> - C