How to fail a python unittest if the setUpClass throws exception

Question

I am having little trouble using the python setUpClass.

For example consider the following case

class MyTest(unittest.case.TestCase):

    @classmethod
          


        

Answer 1

The best option would be is to add handler for the except which calls tearDownClass and re-raise exception.

@classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
    try:
        super(MyTest, cls).setUpClass()
        # setup routine...
    except Exception:  # pylint: disable = W0703
        super(MyTest, cls).tearDownClass()
        raise