* Helge Stenstroem wrote:
> Say I have a function
>
> def f(filename):
> result = openFileAndProcessContents(filename)
> return result
>
> Can that function be unit tested without having a real file as input?
> Something along the lines of
>
> import unittest
> class tests(unittest.Test
Hi!
You can use tempfile.mktemp(), then write test contents to this temp
file,
pass it to your function, unlink tempfile.
you can create / unlink temp file in setUp() / tearDown() methods.
Alexander.
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Helge Stenstroem wrote:
> Say I have a function
>
> def f(filename):
> result = openFileAndProcessContents(filename)
> return result
>
> Can that function be unit tested without having a real file as input?
If you can refactor openFileAndProcessContents() so it looks like this:
def openF
Helge Stenstroem wrote:
> Say I have a function
>
> def f(filename):
> result = openFileAndProcessContents(filename)
> return result
>
> Can that function be unit tested without having a real file as input?
> Something along the lines of
>
> import unittest
> class tests(unittest.TestCas
