# Ridiculously simple test of the os.startfile function for Windows. # # empty.vbs is an empty file (except for a comment), which does # nothing when run with cscript or wscript. # # A possible improvement would be to have empty.vbs do something that # we can detect here, to make sure that not only the os.startfile() # call succeeded, but also the script actually has run. import unittest from test import support import os import sys from os import path startfile = support.get_attribute(os, 'startfile') class TestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_nonexisting(self): self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs") def test_empty(self): # We need to make sure the child process starts in a directory # we're not about to delete. If we're running under -j, that # means the test harness provided directory isn't a safe option. # See http://bugs.python.org/issue15526 for more details with support.change_cwd(path.dirname(sys.executable)): empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs") startfile(empty) startfile(empty, "open") if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main()