impall

🛎 Test-import all modules 🛎

Individually and separately imports each Python module or file in a project and reports warnings or failures at the end.

Running impall as a unit test

Just inherit from the base class and it will automatically find and import each file, like this.

import impall

class ImpAllTest(impall.ImpAllTest):
    pass

(You can copy this file into your project if you like.)

Tests are customized by overriding one of these following properties in the derived class.

CLEAR_SYS_MODULES, EXCLUDE, FAILING, INCLUDE, MODULES, PATHS,
RAISE_EXCEPTIONS, and WARNINGS_ACTION.

For example, to turn warnings into errors, set the property WARNINGS_ACTION in the derived class definition, like this.

class ImpAllTest(impall.ImpAllTest):
    WARNINGS_ACTION = 'error'

Running impall as a command-line utility

$ impall --warnings_action=error
$ impall -w error

The properties INCLUDE, EXCLUDE, and PROJECT_PATH can be lists of strings, or a string separated with colons like 'foo.mod1:foo.mod2'

INCLUDE and EXCLUDE match modules, and also allow * as a wildcard. A single * matches any module segment, and a double ** matches any remaining segments. For example,

INCLUDE = 'foo', 'bar.*', 'baz.**'

• matches foo but not foo.foo
• matches bar.foo but not bar or bar.foo.bar
• matches baz.foo as well as baz.foo.bar but not baz

A note on side-effects

to reduce side-effects, sys.modules is restored to its original condition after each import if CLEAR_SYS_MODULES is true, but there might be other side-effects from loading some specific module.

Use the EXCLUDE property to exclude modules with undesirable side effects. In general, it is probably a bad idea to have significant side-effects just from loading a module.

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