from PySide.QtCore import * import unittest get_counter = 0 set_counter = 0 class Descriptor(object): def __get__(self, obj, owner): global get_counter if not obj: return self get_counter += 1 return obj.var def __set__(self, obj, value): global set_counter set_counter += 1 obj.var = value class FooBar(QObject): test = Descriptor() var = 0 class SetAndGetTestCases(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): global get_counter global set_counter get_counter = 0 set_counter = 0 def testSetMethod(self): global get_counter global set_counter f = FooBar() f.test = 1 self.assertEqual(get_counter, 0) self.assertEqual(set_counter, 1) get_counter = 0 set_counter = 0 def testGetMethod(self): global get_counter global set_counter f = FooBar() f.test = 1 set_counter = 0 ret = f.test self.assertEqual(get_counter, 1) self.assertEqual(set_counter, 0) get_counter = 0 set_counter = 0 if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main()