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# testing.tools

## Module: `testing.tools`

Inheritance diagram for `IPython.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>

## Class

## `TempFileMixin`

class `IPython.testing.tools.``TempFileMixin`

  Bases: `object`

  Utility class to create temporary Python/IPython files.

  Meant as a mixin class for test cases.

  `__init__`()

    x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

  `mktmp`(src, ext='.py')

    Make a valid python temp file.

  `tearDown`()

## Functions

`IPython.testing.tools.``check_pairs`(func, pairs)

  Utility function for the common case of checking a function with a sequence of input/output pairs.

  Parameters :

  func : callable

  > The function to be tested. Should accept a single argument.

  pairs : iterable

  > A list of (input, expected_output) tuples.

  Returns : | None. Raises an AssertionError if any output does not match the expected : value. :

`IPython.testing.tools.``default_argv`()

  Return a valid default argv for creating testing instances of ipython

`IPython.testing.tools.``default_config`()

  Return a config object with good defaults for testing.

`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’]

`IPython.testing.tools.``ipexec`(fname, options=None)

  Utility to call ‘ipython filename’.

  Starts IPython witha minimal and safe configuration to make startup as fast as possible.

  Note that this starts IPython in a subprocess!

  Parameters :

  fname : str

  > Name of file to be executed (should have .py or .ipy extension).

  options : optional, list

  > Extra command-line flags to be passed to IPython.

  Returns : | (stdout, stderr) of ipython subprocess. :

`IPython.testing.tools.``ipexec_validate`(fname, expected_out, expected_err='', options=None)

  Utility to call ‘ipython filename’ and validate output/error.

  This function raises an AssertionError if the validation fails.

  Note that this starts IPython in a subprocess!

  Parameters :

  fname : str

  > Name of the file to be executed (should have .py or .ipy extension).

  expected_out : str

  > Expected stdout of the process.

  expected_err : optional, str

  > Expected stderr of the process.

  options : optional, list

  > Extra command-line flags to be passed to IPython.

  Returns : | None :

`IPython.testing.tools.``mute_warn`(*args, **kwds)

`IPython.testing.tools.``parse_test_output`(txt)

  Parse the output of a test run and return errors, failures.

  Parameters :

  txt : str

  > Text output of a test run, assumed to contain a line of one of the following forms:

  >     'FAILED (errors=1)'
  >     'FAILED (failures=1)'
  >     'FAILED (errors=1, failures=1)'

  Returns : | nerr, nfail: number of errors and failures. :

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