Utilities

Application

mainWindow()
quit()
saveScene()
restart(force=False, delay=3)

Colour

Colors

This module contains functions related to color but not specific to any particular software

from zoo.libs.utils import color

convertHsvToRgb(hsv)

Converts hsv values to rgb rgb is in 0-1 range srgbFloat, hsv is in (0-360, 0-1, 0-1) ranges

Parameters:

hsv (list or tuple) – Hue Saturation Value Hue is in 0-360 range, Sat/Value 0-1 range

Return rgb:

Red Green Blue values 0-1 srgbFloat

Rtype rgb:

list

convertRgbToHsv(rgb)

Converts rgb values to hsv rgb is in 0-1 range, hsv is in (0-360, 0-1, 0-1) ranges

Parameters:

rgb (list or tuple) – Hue Saturation Value Hue is in 0-360 range, Sat/Value 0-1 range

Return hsv:

Red Green Blue values 0-1

Rtype hsv:

list

convertSingleSrgbToLinear(colorValue)

Changes a single rgb color (so say red only) to linear space.

Parameters:

colorValue (float) – a single color value, expects a value from 0-1

Return Linear:

the new color converted to linear

Rtype Linear:

float

convertSingleLinearToSrgb(colorValue)

Changes a single rgb color (so say red only) in linear so the resulting color is displayed in srgb color space.

Parameters:

colorValue (float) – a single color value, expects a value from 0-1

Return Srgb:

the new color converted to srgb

Rtype Srgb:

float

convertColorSrgbToLinear(srgbColor)

Changes a srgb color to linear color

Parameters:

srgbColor (list of floats) – a SRGB float color list/tuple, expects values from 0-1

Return linearRgb:

the new color gamma converted to linear

Rtype linearRgb:

float

convertColorLinearToSrgb(linearRgb)

Changes a linear color to srgb color

Parameters:

linearRgb (list of floats) – a rgb color list/tuple, expects values from 0-1

Returns:

the new color gamma converted to srgb

Return type:

tuple(float)

convertSrgbListToLinear(srgbList, roundNumber=True)

Converts a list to linear, optional round to 4 decimal places

Parameters:

  • srgbList (list) – list of srgb colors range 0-1 eg (0.0, 1.0, 0.0)

  • roundNumber (bool) – do you want to round to 4 decimal places?

Return linearRgbList:

The list of colors converted to linear color

Rtype linearRgbList:

list

desaturate(col, level=1.0)

Returns a desaturated color

Parameters:

  • col (tuple) – int color tuple eg (128, 128, 255, 255)

  • level (float) – Level of desaturation from 0 to 1.0. 1.0 is desaturated, 0 is the same saturation

Returns:

Tuple with desaturated color

Return type:

tuple

offsetHueColor(hsv, offset)

Offsets the hue value (0-360) by the given offset amount keeps in range 0-360 by looping Max offset is 360, min is -360

Parameters:

  • hsv (list) – The hue sat val color list [180, .5, .5]

  • offset (float) – How much to offset the hue component, can go past 360 or less than 0. 0-360 color wheel

Return hsv:

The new hsv list eg [200, .5, .5]

Rtype hsv:

list

offsetSaturation(hsv, offset)

Offsets the “saturation” value (0-1) by the given offset amount keeps in range 0-1 by looping

Parameters:

  • hsv (list) – a 3 value list or tuple representing a the hue saturation and value color [180, .5, .5]

  • offset (float) – the offset value to offset the color

Return hsv:

the hue saturation value color eg [200, .5, .5]

Return type:

list

offsetColor(col, offset=0)

Returns a color with the offset in tuple form.

Parameters:

  • col (tuple(int,int,int)) – Color in form of tuple with 3 ints. eg tuple(255,255,255)

  • offset – The int to offset the color

Returns:

tuple (int,int,int)

offsetValue(hsv, offset)

Offsets the “value” (brightness/darkness) value (0-1) by the given offset amount keeps in range 0-1 by looping

Parameters:

  • hsv (list) – a 3 value list or tuple representing the hue, saturation and value color [180, .5, .5]

  • offset (float) – the offset value to offset the color

Return hsv:

the hue saturation value color eg [200, .5, .5]

Return type:

list

hueShift(col, shift)

Shifts the hue of the given colour

Parameters:

  • col (tuple(int,int,int) or tuple(float,float,float)) – Colour to shift. (0.0 to 1.0)

  • shift (int) – The distance and direction of the colour to shift. Plus or minus 1-360

Returns:

the colour with the shifted hue

Return type:

tuple(int,int,int)

hexToRGBA(hexstr)

Converts hexidecimal number to RGBA tuple

Allows folowing formats:

“RRGGBB” eg 2F2F2F “AARRGGBB” eg 882F2F2F “RGB” eg CCC

Parameters:

hex – String hex eg “2F2F2F”

Returns:

Returns in format tuple(R, G, B, A)

Return type:

tuple

hexToRGB(hexstr)

Converts hexidecimal number to RGBA tuple

Parameters:

hex – String hex eg “2F2F2F”

Returns:

Returns in format tuple(R, G, B)

Return type:

tuple

RGBToHex(rgb)

Converts rgb tuple to hex string

(62, 104, 173) ==> ‘3E68AD’ (168, 20, 86, 255) ==> ‘FF3E68AD’

Parameters:

rgb – rgb tuple

Returns:

Hex string eg ‘44FF33’

rgbIntToFloat(color)

Turns int color (255,255,255,255) to (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)

Parameters:

color – int color tuple eg (128, 128, 255, 255)

Returns:

Float color eg (0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0)

rgbFloatToInt(color)

Turns float color to int color eg (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0) to (255,255,255,255)

Parameters:

color – float color tuple eg (0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0)

Returns:

int color eg (128, 128, 255, 255)

rgbIntRound(color)

Rounds all values of 255 color

example:

(244.9, 100, 10.33) is returned as (255, 100, 10)

Parameters:

color – int color tuple eg (255.0, 0.001, 0.0)

Type:

tuple

Returns:

int color converted eg (255, 0, 0)

Return type:

tuple

class RGBRotate

Bases: object

Hue Rotation, using the matrix rotation method. From here

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8507885/shift-hue-of-an-rgb-color

set_hue_rotation(degrees)
apply(r, g, b)
hslColourOffsetFloat(rgb, hueOffset=0, saturationOffset=0, lightnessOffset=0)

Offset color with hue, saturation and lightness (brighten/darken) values

Colour is expected as rgb in 0.0-1.0 float range eg (0.1, 0.34, 1.0)

Offsets are in:

hue: 0-360,
saturation: 0.0-1.0,
value (lightness): 0.0-1.0

Returned colour is rgb in in 0-1.0 range eg (0.1, 0.34, 1.0)

Parameters:

  • rgb (tuple) – the rgb color in 0.0-0.1 range eg (0.1, 0.34, 1.0)

  • hueOffset (float) – the hue offset in 0-360 range

  • saturationOffset (float) – the saturation offset in 0-255 range

  • lightnessOffset (float) – the lightness value offset, lighten (0.2) or darken (-0.3), 0-0.1 range as an offset

Returns:

the changed rgb color in 0.0-0.1 range eg (0.1, 0.34, 1.0)

Return type:

tuple[float, float, float]

hslColourOffsetInt(rgb, hueOffset=0, saturationOffset=0, lightnessOffset=0)

Offset color with hue, saturation and lightness (brighten/darken) values Colour is expected as rgb in 0-255 range eg (255, 123, 23)

Offsets are in:

hue: 0-360,
saturation: 0-255,
value (lightness): 0-255

Returned colour is rgb in in 0-255 range eg (255, 123, 23)

Parameters:

  • rgb (tuple) – the rgb color in 0-255 range eg (255, 123, 23)

  • hueOffset (int) – the hue offset in 0-360 range

  • saturationOffset (int) – the saturation offset in 0-255 range

  • lightnessOffset (int) – the lightness value offset, lighten (30) or darken (-30), 0-255 range as an offset

Returns:

the changed rgb color in 0-255 range eg (255, 123, 23)

Return type:

tuple[int, int, int]

hsv2rgb(hue, sat, value)

HSV to rgb. Takes in a hue from 0-360. todo might be the same as convertHsvToRgb

Parameters:

  • hue – Hue

  • sat –

  • value –

Returns:

convertKelvinToRGB(colour_temperature)

Converts from K to RGB, algorithm courtesy of http://www.tannerhelland.com/4435/convert-temperature-rgb-algorithm-code/

Parameters:

colour_temperature (float) – the color in degrees kelvin

Returns:

srgb color in int 255 format

Rtype srgb:

tuple(int)

generateHueOffsetPalette(startHsvColor, colorNumber=20, hueRange=280.0)

Generates a color palette by offsetting the hue value from a start hsv color (0-360.0, 0-1.0, 0-1.0)

Parameters:

  • startHsvColor (tuple[float]) – The first color in the palette in hsv color (0-360.0, 0-1.0, 0-1.0)

  • colorNumber (int) – The total number of colors in the palette

  • hueRange (float) – The full spectrum range of the entire color palette in the hue range (360.0 is a full circle)

Return colorListSrgb:

A color list in rgb float [0-1.0, 0-1.0, 0-1.0]

Rtype colorListSrgb:

tuple

Constants

Commandline

class CommandProgressBar(total, prefix, suffix, decimals=1, barLength=50)

Bases: object

increment(value=0)
start()

Filesystem

clearUnMasked(func)

Decorator which clears the umask for a method. The umask is a permissions mask that gets applied whenever new files or folders are created. For I/O methods that have a permissions parameter, it is important that the umask is cleared prior to execution, otherwise the default umask may alter the resulting permissions

upDirectory(path, depth=1)

Walks up the directory structure, use the depth argument to determine how many directories to walk

Parameters:

  • path (str) – the starting path to walk up

  • depth (int) – how many directories to walk

Returns:

the found directory

Return type:

str

iterParentPath(childPath)

Generator function that walks up directory structure starting at the childPath

Parameters:

childPath (str) – the starting path to walk up

Return type:

generator(str)

findParentDirectory(childPath, folder)

recursively walks the up the directory structure and returns the first instance of the folder

Parameters:

  • childPath (str) – the childpath to walk up

  • folder (str) – the folder name to find.

Returns:

the first instance of folder once found.

Return type:

str

openLocation(path)

Opens the parent directory of a file, selecting the file if possible.

Note:

needs to be tested in win 10 from inside of Maya, current issues

Parameters:

path (str) – the path to the directory or file.

openDirectory(directoryPath)

Opens the native OS folder to the directory of file name similar to os.startfile(filename) but also supporting osx and linux.

Note:

current duplicate of findParentDirectory() Just it is not working from Maya, needs to be fixed.

Parameters:

directoryPath (str) – the path to the directory to open

copyFile(src, dst, permissions=509)

Copy file and sets its permissions.

Parameters:

  • src – Source file

  • dst – destination

  • permissions – Permissions to use for target file. Default permissions will be readable and writable for all users.

retainCwd()

Context manager that keeps cwd unchanged afterwards.

setCwd(cwd)

Slightly different version to retainCwd that accepts a parameter

Parameters:

cwd –

Returns:

batchCopyFiles(paths, permissions=509)

Expects the parent folder to have been already created.

Parameters:

  • paths (tuple(tuple(str, str))) – source path, destination path

  • permissions (int) – OS permissions

Returns:

a list of tuples containing source,destination fails

Return type:

list(tuple(str, str)

copyDirectory(src, dst, ignorePattern=None)

Copies the directory tree using shutil.copytree

Parameters:

  • src (str) – the Source directory to copy.

  • dst (str) – the destination directory.

Raise:

OSError

copyDirectoryContents(src, dst, skipExist=True, overwriteModified=False)

Copies the contents of one directory to another including sub-folders. Will make the destination directory if it doesn’t exist Kwargs for checking if the file already exists or has been modified

Parameters:

  • src (str) – The source path a directory path

  • dst (str) – The destination path, a directory path, will create if it does not exist

  • skipExist (bool) – If True will skip if the file already exists

  • overwriteModified (bool) – If the file exists but has been modified overwrite

class MoveFileContext

Bases: object

With context utility to ensures that files that were moved within the scope are moved to their original location if an exception was raised during that scope.

with MoveFileContext() as FileContext:
    someSourcePath = os.path.expandUser("~/soemfile.config")
        FileContext.move(sourceSourcePath, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sourcePath), "destination.config"))
        ValueError("raise an error, so we revert")
move(source, destination)

Move’s a file and keeps track of the source/destination if it succeeded.

Parameters:

  • source – Source file to move.

  • destination – New location for that file.

folderSize(path)

Retrieves the total folder size in bytes

Parameters:

path (str) – Returns the total folder size by walking the directory adding together all child files sizes.

Returns:

size in bytes

Return type:

int

ensureFolderExists(path, permissions=509, placeHolder=False)

If the folder doesnt exist then one will be created. Function built due to version control mishaps with uncommitted empty folders, this folder can generate a place holder file.

Parameters:

  • path (str) – the folderpath to check or create

  • permissions (int) – folder permissions mode

  • placeHolder (bool) – if True create a placeholder text file

Raises:

OSError – raise OSError if the creation of the folder fails

createValidfilename(name)

Sanitizer for file names which everyone tends to screw up, this function replace spaces and random character with underscore.

createValidFilename("Some random file name")
#result: "Some_random_file_name"
Parameters:

name (str) – the name to convert

Return type:

the same format as the passed argument type(utf8 etc)

zipwalk(zfilename)

Zip file tree generator.

For each file entry in a zip archive, this yields a two tuple of the zip information and the data of the file as a StringIO object.

zipinfo, filedata

zipinfo is an instance of zipfile.ZipInfo class which gives information of the file contained in the zip archive. filedata is a StringIO instance representing the actual file data.

If the file again a zip file, the generator extracts the contents of the zip file and walks them.

Inspired by os.walk .

directoryTreeToDict(path)
loadJson(filePath, **kwargs)

This procedure loads and returns the data of a json file

Return type{dict}:

the content of the file

saveJson(data, filepath, message=True, **kws)

This procedure saves given data to a json file

Parameters:

  • data (dict) – The dictionary to save

  • filepath (str) – The full filepath of the json file

  • message (bool) – Report the message to the user?

  • kws – Json Dumps arguments , see standard python docs

Return success:

File written?

Rtype success:

bool

loadFile(filepath)
getTempDir()

Returns the temp directory path on all OS

Return directory:

The temp directory full path

Rtype directory:

str

moveFile(fromFullPath, toFullPath)

Moves a file (cut place) from one location to another

Parameters:

  • fromFullPath (str) – Full path to the file

  • toFullPath (str) – Full path to the destination

loadFileTxt(filePath)

Loads a file as text

Parameters:

filePath (str) – the absolute file path

Return textFile:

the text file

Rtype textFile:

str

saveFileTxt(formattedText, newfile)

Saves a string to a file

Parameters:

  • formattedText (str) – the text

  • newfile (str) – the file to be saved full path

createZipWithProgress(zippath, files)

Same as function createZip() but has a stdout progress bar which is useful for commandline work :param zippath: the file path for the zip file :type zippath: str :param files: A Sequence of file paths that will be archived. :type files: seq(str)

createZip(zippath, files)

Creates a zip file for the files, each path will be stored relative to the zippath which avoids abspath :param zippath: the file path for the zip file :type zippath: str :param files: A Sequence of file paths that will be archived. :type files: seq(str)

checkWritableFile(fullPathFileOrDir)

Checks the write-ablity when file permissions can’t be checked. Tries to rename file to the exact same name.

Usually errors when file is in use by the OS.

This function is currently a hack, if error the file is not writable.

Parameters:

fullPathFileOrDir (str) – the fullpath to the file or the directory

Return fileInUseError:

returns as True if any file is writable

Rtype fileInUseError:

str

checkWritableFiles(fileFullPathList)

Checks the write-ablity when file permissions can’t be checked. Tries to rename files to the exact same name

The file may be in use by a program and cannot be modified, is tricky to catch without the rename hack

Returns error as True if any files in the list aren’t writable

Parameters:

fileFullPathList (list(str)) – a list of fullpaths to the files or the directories

Return fileInUseError:

returns as True if any files in the list aren’t writable

Rtype fileInUseError:

bool

uniqueFileName(fullFilePath, countLimit=500)

Finds a unique filename if a name already exists by adding a number to the end of the file

See trailingNumber() documentation for how the numerical numbers are added to the tail of the name.

Parameters:

  • fullFilePath (str) – Any full path to a filename with an extension

  • countLimit (int) – since this function uses a while loop, set a limit of loops to stop infinite.

Return fullFilePath:

The new fullFilePath possibly renamed if matching filename already exists. “” if count hit

Rtype fullFilePath:

str

renameMultipleFilesNoExt(newNameNoExtension, fileFullPathToRenameList, skipThumbnails=True)

Rename multiple files/dependency folders useful for .zooScene files and check if all files can be renamed first.

Files may be in use by a program and cannot be modified, is tricky to catch without the rename hack A file may be in use, for example alembic files renaming in the wrong order will cause issues.

If errors then no files will be renamed.

Parameters:

  • newNameNoExtension (str) – the new name of the files with no extension, no directory path, filename only

  • fileFullPathToRenameList (list(str)) – a list of fullpaths to the files or the directories

  • skipThumbnails (bool) – Skips files named thumbnails, “thumbnail.jpg” or “thumbnail.png”

Return renamedList:

the renamed files full file path, if empty it’s failed

Rtype renamedList:

str

Flush

This flush module is a hardcore deletion of modules that live in sys.modules dict

flushUnder(dirpath)

Flushes all modules that live under the given directory

Parameters:

dirpath (str) – the name of the top most directory to search under.

reloadZoo()

Reload all zoo modules from sys.modules This makes it trivial to make changes to plugin that have potentially complex reload dependencies.

import flush;flush.reloadZoo()

The above will force all zoo modules to be reloaded by loops over all base packages path in the environment variable “ZOO_BASE_PATHS” then calling flushUnder(basePath)

reloadHard(moduleName)

Removes all modules from sys that starts with the module name

Parameters:

moduleName (str) – The module name to remove

General

merge(a, b, onlyMissingKeys=False, path=None)

Merges two dicts http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7204805/dictionaries-of-dictionaries-merge/7205107#7205107

clearList(l)

Clears list while keeping the reference

Parameters:

l –

Returns:

getArgs(localDict)

Get args from local dict

Returns:

numericalSort(data)

Numerically sorts a list of strings that may have integers within

Return type:

list(str)

data = ["ctrl1", "ctrl50", "ctrl2", "ctrl"]
print numericalSort(data)
# Result: ['joint', 'joint1', 'joint2', 'joint50'] #
humanizeBytes(bytes, precision=1)

Return a humanized string representation of a number of bytes. Based on: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577081-humanized-representation-of-a-number-of-bytes

humanize_bytes(1)
# '1 byte'
humanizeBytes(1024)
# '1.0 kB'
humanizeBytes(1024*123)
# '123.0 kB'
humanizeBytes(1024*12342)
# '12.1 MB'
humanizeBytes(1024*12342,2)
# '12.05 MB'
humanizeBytes(1024*1234,2)
# '1.21 MB'
humanizeBytes(1024*1234*1111,2)
# '1.31 GB'
humanizeBytes(1024*1234*1111,1)
# '1.3 GB'
getDuplicates(seq)

Return’s all the duplicate value in seq

Parameters:

seq (list or tuple) – the sequence of possible duplicates

Returns:

a list of duplicate values from seq

Return type:

list

fuzzyFinder(input, collection)

A poor person fuzzy finder function.

Parameters:

  • input (str.) – A partial string which is typically entered by a user.

  • collection (iterable.) – A collection of strings which will be filtered based on the input.

Returns:

A generator object that produces a list of suggestions narrowed down from collection using the input.

Return type:

generator.

list(fuzzyFinder("te", ["gete", "test", "hello", "job", "lbsknasdvte", "3rya8d^&%()te)VHF"]))
# result ['test', 'gete', 'lbsknasdvte', '3rya8d^&%()te)VHF']
isIteratable(obj)

Determines if the object is an iterable.

This is done by attempting to iterate on the obj and if it raise’s a type error then return False else True

Returns:

returns True if the obj is iterable.

Return type:

bool

chunks(iteratable, size, overlap=0)

Yield successive sized chunks from iteratable.

uniqify(li)

Makes list unique (No duplicates), and preserves order

Parameters:

li (list) – List to make unique

Returns:

Return type:

jsonToBool(val)

Returns true or false based on the string given.

Parameters:

val (basestring) –

Returns:

Return type:

bool

printException()

Print out the exception.

Without raising the exception. Should be run in the exception block

Returns:

compareDictionaries(source, target)

Compare the two dictionaries source and target.

Target will get the new changes from source.

Parameters:

  • source (dict) – The source dictionary with the original zoo key entries

  • target (dict) – The target dictionary that will get the new changes from source

Return messageLog:

A message log of any changes that have occurred

Rtype messageLog:

str

Output

displayInfo(txt)

Display info based on application

Parameters:

txt – Info text

Returns:

displayWarning(txt)

Display Warning based on application

Parameters:

txt – warning

Returns:

displayError(txt)

Display Error based on application

Parameters:

txt – error

Returns:

clearViewMessage(position='botCenter', clear=True)
inViewMessage(txt='Message highlight <hl>highlight</hl>.', position='botCenter', fade=True, textOffset=30, fadeInTime=1, fadeOutTime=1, fadeStayTime=1500, alpha=1.0)

Path

Profiling

Python profiling tools

profileit(name)

cProfile decorator to profile said function, must pass in a filename to write the information out to use RunSnakeRun to run the output

Parameters:

name (str) – The output file path

Returns:

Function

fnTimer(function)

Thread

class Threaded

Bases: object

Threaded base class that contains a threading.Lock member and an ‘exclusive’ function decorator that implements exclusive access to the contained code using a thread lock.

static exclusive(func)

Static method intended to be used as a function decorator in derived classes.

Parameters:

func – Function to decorate/wrap

Returns:

Wrapper function that executes the function inside the acquired lock

@Threaded.exclusive
def my_method(self, ...):
    ...
threadedCopy(filepaths)

Copies a set of files in a separate thread.

Uses the CopyThread class.

Parameters:

filepaths (list(str)) – is a list of (from_path, to_path) pairs.

paths =[('C:/src/path.txt', 'C:/destination/path.txt'),
('C:/src/path1.txt', 'C:/destination/path1.txt'),
('C:/src/path2.txt', 'C:/destination/path2.txt')]
threadedCopy(paths)
class CopyThread(filepaths)

Bases: Thread

run()

Method representing the thread’s activity.

You may override this method in a subclass. The standard run() method invokes the callable object passed to the object’s constructor as the target argument, if any, with sequential and keyword arguments taken from the args and kwargs arguments, respectively.

Timeutils

formatFrameToTime(start, current, frameRate)
formatModifiedDateTime(dateTime)

Format a data/time into a nice human-friendly string.

Parameters:

dateTime (datatime) – The datetime instance to be formatted

:returns A string representing the datetime in a nice format :rtype: str

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
format_modified_date_time_str(now)
# result: 'Today, 9:23am'
daySuffix(day)

Figure out the suffix to use for the specified day of the month (e.g. 1st, 3rd, 15th, 32nd, etc.)

Parameters:

day (int) – The day of the month

Returns:

A string containing the shorthand suffix for the day of the month

Return type:

str

Zoomath

lerp(current, goal, weight=0.5)
lerpCount(start, end, count)

Iterates between start and goal for the given count.

for i in lerpCount(-10, 10, 8):
    print(i)

Outputs:

# 0.0
# 0.25
# 0.5
# 0.75
# 1.0
Parameters:

  • start (float) – The starting number i.e. 0.0

  • end (float) – The goal number i.e. 1.0

  • count (int) – The number of iterations.

Return type:

Iterable[float]

remap(value, oldMin, oldMax, newMin, newMax)
almostEqual(x, y, tailCount)
mean(numbers)

Returns the mean/average of the numbers.

Parameters:

numbers (list[float]) – The numbers to average.

Return type:

float

threePointParabola(a, b, c, iterations)
clamp(value, minValue=0.0, maxValue=1.0)

Clamps a value withing a max and min range

Parameters:

  • value (float) – value/number

  • minValue (float) – clamp/stop any value below this value

  • maxValue (float) – clamp/stop any value above this value

Return clampedValue:

clamped value as a float

Rtype clampedValue:

float

Unittest

decorating_meta(decorator)
skipUnlessHasattr(obj)
class BaseUnitest(methodName='runTest')

Bases: TestCase

This Class acts as the base for all unitests, supplies a helper method for creating tempfile which will be cleaned up once the class has been shutdown. If you override the tearDownClass method you must call super or at least clean up the _createFiles set

application = 'standalone'
classmethod createTemp(*args, **kwargs)
classmethod mkstemp(*args, **kwargs)
classmethod mkdtemp(*args, **kwargs)
classmethod addTempFile(filepath)
classmethod tearDownClass()

Hook method for deconstructing the class fixture after running all tests in the class.

class ZooTestResult(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: TextTestResult

startTest(test)

Called when the given test is about to be run

addSuccess(test)

Called when a test has completed successfully

class ZooTestRunner(slowTestThreshold=0.3, *args, **kwargs)

Bases: TextTestRunner

run(test)

Run the given test case or test suite.

runTests(directories=None, test=None, test_suite=None, buffer=False, failfast=False, stream=None, resultClass=None)

Run all the tests in the given paths.

Parameters:

  • directories – A generator or list of paths containing tests to run.

  • test – Optional name of a specific test to run.

  • test_suite – Optional TestSuite to run. If omitted, a TestSuite will be generated.

getTests(directories, test=None, testSuite=None, topLevelDir=None)

Get a unittest.TestSuite containing all the desired tests.

Parameters:

  • directories – Optional list of directories with which to search for tests.

  • test – Optional test path to find a specific test such as ‘test_mytest.SomeTestCase.test_function’.

  • testSuite – Optional unittest.TestSuite to add the discovered tests to. If omitted a new TestSuite will be created.

Returns:

The populated TestSuite.

Return type:

unittest.suite.TestSuite