Python unit test. How to add some sleeping time between test cases?

Question

I am using python unit test module. I am wondering is there anyway to add some delay between every 2 test cases? Because my unit test is just making http request and I guess the server may block the frequent request from the same ip.

Answer 1

import time
time.sleep(2.5) # sleeps for 2.5 seconds

You might want to consider making the delay a random value between x and y.

Answer 2

Put a sleep inside the tearDown method of your TestCase

class ExampleTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        pass

    def tearDown(self):
        time.sleep(1)  # sleep time in seconds

This will execute after every test within that TestCase

EDIT: added setUp because the documentation seems to perhaps indicate that you can't have a tearDown without one, but it's not clear