[TIP] Unittesting command line scripts with unittest2?

[Michael Foord]

On 29/07/2010 05:09, Jorge Vargas wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:31 PM, holger krekel<holger at merlinux.eu>  wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 18:10 -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
>>
>> What i usually do is define a main(args=None) function and set
>> args to sys.argv[1:] in case it is None.  This way you can
>> call "main(['status'])" from your tests and don't need to
>> worry about global sys.argv settings during the test.
>>      
> Right, I think I'm going to do that.
>
> Right now I'm having troubles with the stdout replacement, as it's
> swallowing up the coverage report :)
>
> Seems like tearDown is called after the coverage report, because I get
> the dots and the ok/failure message.
>    
Hmmm... the coverage report is generated in the stopTestRun event, which 
is called after all tests have run (including all tearDowns).

Michael

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