Lib/test/test_commands.py

'''
   Tests for commands module
   Nick Mathewson
'''
import unittest
import os, tempfile, re

from test.support import TestSkipped, run_unittest, reap_children
from commands import *

# The module says:
#   "NB This only works (and is only relevant) for UNIX."
#
# Actually, getoutput should work on any platform with an os.popen, but
# I'll take the comment as given, and skip this suite.

if os.name != 'posix':
    raise TestSkipped('Not posix; skipping test_commands')


class CommandTests(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_getoutput(self):
        self.assertEquals(getoutput('echo xyzzy'), 'xyzzy')
        self.assertEquals(getstatusoutput('echo xyzzy'), (0, 'xyzzy'))

        # we use mkdtemp in the next line to create an empty directory
        # under our exclusive control; from that, we can invent a pathname
        # that we _know_ won't exist.  This is guaranteed to fail.
        dir = None
        try:
            dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
            name = os.path.join(dir, "foo")

            status, output = getstatusoutput('cat ' + name)
            self.assertNotEquals(status, 0)
        finally:
            if dir is not None:
                os.rmdir(dir)


def test_main():
    run_unittest(CommandTests)
    reap_children()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    test_main()