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[unittest] Run setUp only once

Hello,

I have a number of conceptually separate tests that nevertheless need
a common, complicated and expensive setup.

Unfortunately, unittest runs the setUp method once for each defined
test, even if they're part of the same class as in

class TwoTests(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
# do something very time consuming

def testOneThing(self):
def testADifferentThing(self):
which would call setUp twice.
Is there any way to avoid this, without packing all the unrelated
tests into one big function?
Best,

-Nikolaus

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