# Ridiculously simple test of the os.startfile function for Windows. # # empty.vbs is an empty file (except for a comment), which does # nothing when run with cscript or wscript. # # A possible improvement would be to have empty.vbs do something that # we can detect here, to make sure that not only the os.startfile() # call succeeded, but also the the script actually has run. import unittest from test import test_support # use this form so that the test is skipped when startfile is not available: from os import startfile, path class TestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_nonexisting(self): self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs") def test_empty(self): empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs") startfile(empty) startfile(empty, "open") def test_main(): test_support.run_unittest(TestCase) if __name__=="__main__": test_main()