from http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html
-->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---->8-- Here is a short script to test three functions from the random module: import random import unittest class TestSequenceFunctions(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): self.seq = range(10) def test_shuffle(self): # make sure the shuffled sequence does not lose any elements random.shuffle(self.seq) self.seq.sort() self.assertEqual(self.seq, range(10)) # should raise an exception for an immutable sequence self.assertRaises(TypeError, random.shuffle, (1,2,3)) def test_choice(self): element = random.choice(self.seq) self.assertTrue(element in self.seq) def test_sample(self): with self.assertRaises(ValueError): random.sample(self.seq, 20) for element in random.sample(self.seq, 5): self.assertTrue(element in self.seq) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main() --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- but test_sample() it's a strange method: what's that "with self.assertRaises(ValueErrorr)"? infact, running the script I have $ python test_unittest.py .E. ====================================================================== ERROR: test_sample (__main__.TestSequenceFunctions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "./test_data_manip.py", line 23, in test_sample with self.assertRaises(ValueError): TypeError: failUnlessRaises() takes at least 3 arguments (2 given) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 3 tests in 0.001s FAILED (errors=1) $ -- By ZeD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list