Ex 48 - basic questions

Python
#1

Hi all,

I’m new to Python coding and working through LPTHW and am struggling with Ex 48. Any help would be appreciated. I’ll try to describe my problems below:

I think I have set up my project directory correctly as per the previous exercises. It appears like this:

ex48/
bin
docs
ex48/
init.py
lexicon.py
tests/
init.py
lexicon_tests.py
setup.py

The setup.py file mirrors Zed’s, the lexicon_test.py mirrors the first 6 lines from Zed’s pre-written code in the exercise, and my lexicon.py file contains

I’m watching the video ( LPy3THW Ex48) and at 9:48 Zed types nosetests .\lexicon_tests.py but when I try this an error (ERROR: Failure: ImportError (No module named ’ ')) occurs.

I’m sure it something very obvious but I can’t work out what I’m doing wrong. Any ideas?

#2

Hello @KSBM and welcome to the forum.

It´s good that you showed your skeleton for this project.
I want to suggest that you wrap it ( and all code ) between square brackets with the word “code” at top and “/code” below. You type like this:

[code]
ex48/
bin
docs
ex48/
__init__ .py
lexicon.py
tests/
__init__.py
lexicon_tests.py
setup.py
[/code]

And it will look like this. Then one can copy and paste into an editor and try your code to see why there is a problem.

ex48/
bin
docs
ex48/
__init__ .py
lexicon.py
tests/
__init__.py
lexicon_tests.py
setup.py

When I see your skeleton it looks like setup.py is in the test folder.
Is that so? I guess that can be a reason for your error.

It is also good to tell which OS you have. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
The version of Python is sometimes good to know.

I also want to suggest Pytest for testing the code. It is much easier to use.

#3

Thanks Ulfen69 and apologies for not bracketing the code!

To answer your questions: no, the setup.py is in the main project folder (i.e. not in any subfolder).

I am running Mac OS 10.15.5 with Python3.6.

I seemed to get it to work but simply by typing nose tests whilst in the project folder without including [.\lexicon_tests.py].

I will certainly take your advice and try Pytest once I’ve finished LPTHW.

Thank you.