Helpful cleanups.

1. Remove the usage of the path.join function
   now that all code should be going through
   the util file methods (and they can be
   mocked out as needed).
2. Adjust all occurences of the above join
   function to either not use it or replace
   it with the standard os.path.join (which
   can also be mocked out as needed)
3. Fix pylint from complaining about the
   tests folder 'helpers.py' not being found
4. Add a pylintrc file that is used instead
   of the options hidden in the 'run_pylint' 
   tool.

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/tests/unittests/test_runs/__init__.py b/tests/unittests/test_runs/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unittests/test_runs/__init__.py
diff --git a/tests/unittests/test_runs/test_simple_run.py b/tests/unittests/test_runs/test_simple_run.py
index 1e852e1e..22d6cf2c 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/test_runs/test_simple_run.py
+++ b/tests/unittests/test_runs/test_simple_run.py
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 import os
-import sys
 
-# Allow running this test individually
-top_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir, "helpers.py")
-top_dir = os.path.abspath(top_dir)
-if os.path.exists(top_dir):
-    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(top_dir))
-
-
-import helpers
+from tests.unittests import helpers
 
 from cloudinit.settings import (PER_INSTANCE)
 from cloudinit import stages