From 0877060f8690c50865c3840585c6ce285a99c07c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:22:26 +0000
Subject: unittest.TestLoader creates a TestSuite before calling load_tests.
 Issue 7799.

---
 Lib/test/test_unittest.py | 2 ++
 Lib/unittest/loader.py    | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unittest.py b/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
index f24117c..8314262 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
@@ -272,12 +272,14 @@ class Test_TestLoader(TestCase):
 
         load_tests_args = []
         def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
+            self.assertIsInstance(tests, unittest.TestSuite)
             load_tests_args.extend((loader, tests, pattern))
             return tests
         m.load_tests = load_tests
 
         loader = unittest.TestLoader()
         suite = loader.loadTestsFromModule(m)
+        self.assertIsInstance(suite, unittest.TestSuite)
         self.assertEquals(load_tests_args, [loader, suite, None])
 
         load_tests_args = []
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/loader.py b/Lib/unittest/loader.py
index 31c343b..c04de06 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/loader.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/loader.py
@@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ class TestLoader(object):
                 tests.append(self.loadTestsFromTestCase(obj))
 
         load_tests = getattr(module, 'load_tests', None)
+        tests = self.suiteClass(tests)
         if use_load_tests and load_tests is not None:
             return load_tests(self, tests, None)
-        return self.suiteClass(tests)
+        return tests
 
     def loadTestsFromName(self, name, module=None):
         """Return a suite of all tests cases given a string specifier.
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