[Python-Dev] test turds?

[Trent Mick]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:17:14PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Recently I patched a bug in whichdb. Following Tim's advice "each bug we
> find is a bug in the regression testing", I decided to write a test case
> for whichdb. However, the problem is that I'm not sure where I can create
> files, which must not be leftovers from the test suite. Does anyone know

test_support.TESTFN is a test filename that is intended to be used by Python
test scripts. Currently it is just the file '@test' in the current directory.
A better mechanism might be to use the tempfile.mktemp() module and function.


> of a test which creates files, and how it deals with them?

[.../dist/src/Lib/test]$ grep -l 'open\b' test_*.py
test_array.py
test_b1.py
test_b2.py
test_binhex.py
test_bsddb.py
test_cd.py
test_cpickle.py
test_dbm.py
test_dl.py
test_exceptions.py
test_fcntl.py
test_gdbm.py
test_gl.py
test_linuxaudiodev.py
test_mmap.py
test_pkg.py
test_popen2.py
test_pty.py
test_rgbimg.py
test_select.py
test_sunaudiodev.py
test_tokenize.py
test_winreg.py
test_winreg2.py
test_zipfile.py
test_zlib.py


Trent