''' Tests for commands module Nick Mathewson ''' import unittest import os, tempfile, re from test_support import TestSkipped, run_unittest 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 mktemp in the next line to get a filename which we # _know_ won't exist. This is guaranteed to fail. status, output = getstatusoutput('cat ' + tempfile.mktemp()) self.assertNotEquals(status, 0) def test_getstatus(self): # This pattern should match 'ls -ld /bin/ls' on any posix # system, however perversely configured. pat = r'''-..x..x..x # It is executable. \s+\d+ # It has some number of links. \s+\w+\s+\w+ # It has a user and group, which may # be named anything. [^/]* # Skip the date. /bin/ls # and end with the name of the file. ''' self.assert_(re.match(pat, getstatus("/bin/ls"), re.VERBOSE)) run_unittest(CommandTests)