2 Tests for commands module
6 import os
, tempfile
, re
8 from test
.test_support
import TestSkipped
, run_unittest
12 # "NB This only works (and is only relevant) for UNIX."
14 # Actually, getoutput should work on any platform with an os.popen, but
15 # I'll take the comment as given, and skip this suite.
17 if os
.name
!= 'posix':
18 raise TestSkipped('Not posix; skipping test_commands')
21 class CommandTests(unittest
.TestCase
):
23 def test_getoutput(self
):
24 self
.assertEquals(getoutput('echo xyzzy'), 'xyzzy')
25 self
.assertEquals(getstatusoutput('echo xyzzy'), (0, 'xyzzy'))
27 # we use mkdtemp in the next line to create an empty directory
28 # under our exclusive control; from that, we can invent a pathname
29 # that we _know_ won't exist. This is guaranteed to fail.
32 dir = tempfile
.mkdtemp()
33 name
= os
.path
.join(dir, "foo")
35 status
, output
= getstatusoutput('cat ' + name
)
36 self
.assertNotEquals(status
, 0)
41 def test_getstatus(self
):
42 # This pattern should match 'ls -ld /.' on any posix
43 # system, however perversely configured. Even on systems
44 # (e.g., Cygwin) where user and group names can have spaces:
45 # drwxr-xr-x 15 Administ Domain U 4096 Aug 12 12:50 /
46 # drwxr-xr-x 15 Joe User My Group 4096 Aug 12 12:50 /
47 # Note that the first case above has a space in the group name
48 # while the second one has a space in both names.
49 pat
= r
'''d......... # It is a directory.
50 \+? # It may have ACLs.
51 \s+\d+ # It has some number of links.
52 [^/]* # Skip user, group, size, and date.
53 /\. # and end with the name of the file.
56 self
.assert_(re
.match(pat
, getstatus("/."), re
.VERBOSE
))
60 run_unittest(CommandTests
)
63 if __name__
== "__main__":