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# testing.tools

## Module: `testing.tools`

Generic testing tools that do NOT depend on Twisted.

In particular, this module exposes a set of top-level assert* functions that can be used in place of nose.tools.assert* in method generators (the ones in nose can not, at least as of nose 0.10.4).

Note: our testing package contains testing.util, which does depend on Twisted and provides utilities for tests that manage Deferreds. All testing support tools that only depend on nose, IPython or the standard library should go here instead.

### Authors

- Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez@berkeley.edu>

## Functions

`IPython.testing.tools.``full_path`(startPath, files)

  Make full paths for all the listed files, based on startPath.

  Only the base part of startPath is kept, since this routine is typically used with a script’s __file__ variable as startPath. The base of startPath is then prepended to all the listed files, forming the output list.

  Parameters: | startPath : string Initial path to use as the base for the results. This path is split using os.path.split() and only its first component is kept. files : string or list One or more files.

  Examples

      >>> full_path('/foo/bar.py',['a.txt','b.txt'])
      ['/foo/a.txt', '/foo/b.txt']

      >>> full_path('/foo',['a.txt','b.txt'])
      ['/a.txt', '/b.txt']

  If a single file is given, the output is still a list: >>> full_path(‘/foo’,’a.txt’) [‘/a.txt’]

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