Is there a way to get python's nose module to work the same in __main__ and on the command line?

Question

Hello,

I'm not sure of how to get the nose module's __main__ handler to work. I have this at the end of my test module:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import nose
    nose.main()

Which gives me:

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Ran 0 tests in 0.002s

OK

but it I run the same thing via the command line, it finds the tests and executes them:

MacBook-Pro:Storage_t meloam$nosetests FileManager_t.py 
............E..
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ERROR: testStageOutMgrWrapperRealCopy (WMCore_t.Storage_t.FileManager_t.TestFileManager)
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SNIP

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Ran 15 tests in 0.082s

FAILED (errors=1)

I've been playing with passing different arguments to nose.main() but I can't find anything that works. Am I missing something really obvious?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to use nose.core.TestProgram directly by passing it fake command line arguments. That I'm not sure though will if find your tests from the same module as you're using