Unittest import error

[Zahari Zahariev]

Hi Jelmer,

Anatoliy has had the same problem and told me a bit later that
"python-subunit" was an additional package.
Why isn't it in ./configure script as this is obviously a constant problem
for people trying to run individual unittests? I think this problem should
be addressed because the last time when I was using/writing unittests for
Ldb (6 months ago) there was no such issue.

Thanks!

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> wrote:

> Hi Zahari,
>
> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 16:15 +0300, Zahari Zahariev wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to start some manual unittest files and I bumped into an
> > error:
> >
> >
> > root at darkstar:~/samba-master/source4# python
> > lib/ldb/tests/python/ldap.py localhost -U%
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "lib/ldb/tests/python/ldap.py", line 31, in <module>
> >     from subunit.run import SubunitTestRunner
> > ImportError: No module named subunit.run
> >
> >
> > Can you tell why does this happen?
> You should either have subunit installed on your system or you need to
> pull in the version that is included with Samba somehow. The latter is
> probably not desirable since that file lives in the ldb directory and we
> do want ldb to be installable standalone.
>
> So you could either add an attempt to import 'samba' and a call to
> ensure_external() in that file (but allowing that to fail, as the samba
> module might not be available), or you could install subunit on your
> system or you could set PYTHONPATH to a path that includes the subunit
> that is included with Samba (../lib/subunit/python IIRC).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
>