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[Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 1, 2010, Aaron Bentley  wrote:
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> Gavin Panella wrote:
>> LaunchpadScript, from which JobCronScriptSubclass inherits, has an
>> OptionParser that reads sys.argv. When running a script in the test
>> process, it get the arguments that were passed to bin/test.
>> LaunchpadScript.__init__() has a test_args parameter that can be used
>> to prevent use of sys.argv, and the patch adds this support to
>> JobCronScript.__init__().
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> I'm still a little confused.  Here's what I understand:
>
> We don't always run the script in a subprocess, and when we don't, we
> must override the default argument handling, because sys.argv will
> contain the parameters for the test runner, not the script.
>
> Is that what you mean?

Yes, that's it.

>
>> Sorry I didn't explain my thinking before; I was in a rush and wanted
>> to get something out there in case someone else was having a similar
>> problem.
>
> Actually, I had that problem myself, but in that specific case you can
> run it as "bin/test test_runner".

I thought I tried that without success, but perhaps I did something
else. I'll give it another go when I'm back at my computer.

Gavin.