Unittest - testing for filenames and filesize

[88888 Dihedral]

On Saturday, September 1, 2012 12:19:10 AM UTC+8, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 23/08/2012 12:25, Tigerstyle wrote:
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> > class FileTest(unittest.TestCase):
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> >
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> >      def setUp(self):
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> >          self.origdir = os.getcwd()
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> >          self.dirname = tempfile.mkdtemp("testdir")
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> >          os.chdir(self.dirname)
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> 
> 
> I wouldn't change directories like this, it's pretty fragile, just use 
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> absolute paths.
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> 
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> >      def test_1(self):
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> >          "Verify creation of files is possible"
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> >          for filename in ("this.txt", "that.txt", "the_other.txt"):
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> >              f = open(filename, "w")
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> >              f.write("Some text\n")
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> >              f.close()
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> >              self.assertTrue(f.closed)
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> >
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> >      def test_2(self):
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> >          "Verify that current directory is empty"
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> >          self.assertEqual(glob.glob("*"), [], "Directory not empty")
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> >
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> >      def tearDown(self):
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> >          os.chdir(self.origdir)
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> >          shutil.rmtree(self.dirname)
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> 
> 
> Seeing this, you might find the following tools useful:
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> 
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> http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/files.html
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> 
> 
> cheers,
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> 
> 
> Chris
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> 
> 
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Well, I am thinking  that the directory tree listing services or daemons
supported by the OS by some iterators could be better than the stack
based model.