self.driver not being recognized in setUpClass or tearDownClass

[mmaniscalco]

I have some tests classes that I would like to do a one time setup for, but selenose is not initializing self.driver until setUp.

This works fine:

import nose

from selenose.cases import SeleniumTestCase

class TestCase(SeleniumTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.driver.get('http://www.google.com')
        # Your test here...

    def test(self):
        print "hi"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    nose.main()

This fails

import nose

from selenose.cases import SeleniumTestCase

class TestCase(SeleniumTestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.driver.get('http://www.google.com')
        # Your test here...

    def test(self):
        print "hi"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    nose.main()

Trace:

E
======================================================================
ERROR: test suite for <class 'test.TestCase'>
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose-1.1.2-py2.7.egg/nose/suite.py", line 208, in run
    self.setUp()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose-1.1.2-py2.7.egg/nose/suite.py", line 291, in setUp
    self.setupContext(ancestor)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose-1.1.2-py2.7.egg/nose/suite.py", line 314, in setupContext
    try_run(context, names)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose-1.1.2-py2.7.egg/nose/util.py", line 478, in try_run
    return func()
  File "/Users/marc/git/automation/portal/tests/api/test.py", line 9, in setUpClass
    cls.driver.get('http://www.google.com')
AttributeError: type object 'TestCase' has no attribute 'driver'

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Ran 0 tests in 0.001s

FAILED (errors=1)