I have a working test suite that runs with Nose.

I recently realized I needed to add things to my overall `setUp()`, as triggered by a variable found in each individual test (the variable gets updated by our version control system).

I have added an `__init__()` to my BaseTest.py and my individual test. However, I get `ValueError: no such test method in <class 'my_test.check_error_test'>: runTest`

From googling, it looks like this has to do with a unittest loader. But Nose always took care of all of the loaders before. 

I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that I am touching the `methodName` attribute after Nose sets it, but I cannot figure out what I should be setting it to, ESPECIALLY since I use various Nose Plugins. Or perhaps there's a better way. What do I need to do differently?

BaseTest.py

```
import unittest

class BaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def __init__(self, methodName='runTest', p4rev=None):
        super(BaseTest, self).__init__(methodName)
        self.p4rev = p4rev

    def setUp(self):
        triggerSomething(p4rev)

```

My\_test.py

```
from BaseTest import BaseTest

rev = '12345'

class CheckError_Test(BaseTest):
    def __init__(self, rev):
        super(CheckError_Test, self).__init__(p4rev=rev)

    dosomething()

```

**NOTE:** If I don't have use `super(BaseTest, self).__init__(methodName)` I get an error: `Attribute error: 'check_error_test' object has no attribute '_testMethodName'`. Hence its inclusion

**To Clarify:** One comment suggests duplicate post, however linked post is about how to run tests in general, while this post asks how to access specific variables within a given test at runtime.