[Python-modules-team] Bug#589267: nosetests plugin imports too many modules

[Enrico Zini]

Package: python-pylons
Version: 0.10-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

thank you for maintaning pylons.

Bug #589171 has highlighted an issue in pylons nose plugin:

  $ nosetests --help
  /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/tw/core/view.py:223: DeprecationWarning: object.__new__() takes no parameters
    obj = object.__new__(cls, *args, **kw)
  Usage: nosetests [options]
  
  Options:
  [...]

Now, at that stage the pylons nose plugin should only add options to the
nose optparse. In order to do so, it shouldn't need to import pylons and
all its components, which it seems to do because we see that deprecation
warning from ToscaWidgets.

I suppose a possible fix could be having pylons/test.py import the whole
of pylons only inside begin(self).


Ciao,

Enrico


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