ShakeM · October 26, 2018 15:18 · Feb 23, 2015
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+In some cases for Python unit tests, we want to automatically perform `setUp` methods in as declared in a base class. However, we still want `setUp` to work as per normal in the subclass. The following code will proxy the new `setUp` function to run it's base class' and the new one.
+
+```python
+# Define a common test base for starting servers
+class MyBaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        """On inherited classes, run our `setUp` method"""
+        # Inspired via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323455/python-unit-test-with-base-and-sub-class/17696807#17696807
+        if cls is not MyBaseTestCase and cls.setUp is not MyBaseTestCase.setUp:
+            orig_setUp = cls.setUp
+            def setUpOverride(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                MyBaseTestCase.setUp(self)
+                return orig_setUp(self, *args, **kwargs)
+            cls.setUp = setUpOverride
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        """Do some custom setup"""
+        self.abc = True
+
+
+class ItemCreateTest(MyBaseTestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        """Do more custom setup"""
+        self.def = True
+
+    def test_verify_both_setups_run(self):
+        """Test for our current usage"""
+        self.assertEqual(self.abc, True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.def, True)
+
+```
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