X-1.0rc2: IDE: unittest.main() not usable - sys.argv is empty --- workaround --- fixed in 1.1.0

[Jonathan Sternberg]

*** workaround:
see comment #1
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If using the unittest module in the Sikuli IDE, it will fail after calling unittest.main() with this backtrace.

[error] Error message: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\DOCUME~1\JSTERN~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\sikuli-tmp6357708907197010851.py", line 28, in
    unittest.main()
File "C:\Program Files\Sikuli X\sikuli-script.jar\Lib\unittest.py", line 766, in __init__
IndexError: index out of range: 0

That line is:
        self.progName = os.path.basename(argv[0])

It just looks like Sikuli isn't passing the program name as the first argument and the unittest module wants that.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

When running a script in the IDE that uses the unit test module, you cannot use unittest.main(), you have to use

suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TestClass)
unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite)

to run your tests.

Only when running a script from command line, sys.argv is populated as expected.

So to be consistent, do not use unit test.main() generally.