[TIP] Unittesting command line scripts with unittest2?

[Michael Foord]

On 29/07/2010 05:35, Jorge Vargas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Jorge Vargas<jorge.vargas at gmail.com>  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:
>>>
>>>        
>> 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.
>>
>>      
> I believe the following code should do it right.
>
> http://paste.ofcode.org/bVdw7bcu74VhaAtaAk33KM
>
> it
> a- stores a copy of stdout/stderr, so you can assert against it after
> calling made and it echos back to the terminal
> b- it restores the original values just in case something else needs them.
>
> And I haven't added Holger's suggesting of doing main(args=None) which
> I think it's a good idea.
>    
It looks okay. You probably mean tearDown rather than teadDown.

Michael

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