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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_subprocess.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 34 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py index 3f877f2008..c9a3e1b698 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py @@ -702,10 +702,36 @@ class ProcessTestCase(unittest.TestCase): p.terminate() self.assertNotEqual(p.wait(), 0) +class CommandTests(unittest.TestCase): +# 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': + + def test_getoutput(self): + self.assertEquals(subprocess.getoutput('echo xyzzy'), 'xyzzy') + self.assertEquals(subprocess.getstatusoutput('echo xyzzy'), + (0, 'xyzzy')) + + # we use mkdtemp in the next line to create an empty directory + # under our exclusive control; from that, we can invent a pathname + # that we _know_ won't exist. This is guaranteed to fail. + dir = None + try: + dir = tempfile.mkdtemp() + name = os.path.join(dir, "foo") + + status, output = subprocess.getstatusoutput('cat ' + name) + self.assertNotEquals(status, 0) + finally: + if dir is not None: + os.rmdir(dir) + def test_main(): - support.run_unittest(ProcessTestCase) - if hasattr(support, "reap_children"): - support.reap_children() + support.run_unittest(ProcessTestCase, CommandTests) + support.reap_children() if __name__ == "__main__": - unittest.main() # XXX test_main() + test_main() |