From 551ea94d2475f6702f652e49698a20be97c26b2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Darnell <ben@bendarnell.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:04:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Initialize member variables in AsyncTestCase.__init__ instead
 of setUp to avoid masking the real error in _stack_context() if run() throws
 an exception.

---
 tornado/testing.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tornado/testing.py b/tornado/testing.py
index b810edf2..ec25d5c9 100644
--- a/tornado/testing.py
+++ b/tornado/testing.py
@@ -74,13 +74,17 @@ class AsyncTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
                 response = self.wait()
                 # Test contents of response
     """
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.io_loop = self.get_new_ioloop()
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(AsyncTestCase, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.__stopped = False
         self.__running = False
         self.__failure = None
         self.__stop_args = None
 
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(AsyncTestCase, self).setUp()
+        self.io_loop = self.get_new_ioloop()
+
     def tearDown(self):
         if self.io_loop is not tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance():
             # Try to clean up any file descriptors left open in the ioloop.