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Re: Testing interactive code using raw_input

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> Does anyone have any good hints for testing interactive code that uses 
> raw_input, or input in Python 3?

Are you testing the behaviour of the ‘input’ function?

If not, then it is an external dependency; and, since you're not
interested in testing its behaviour, you can contrive its behaviour to
be exactly what you want: Mock the function during your unit test, and
get it to produce whatever output you like.

Mocking is a blunt instrument, but when the external dependency is
problematic – and it seems like “access to an interactive terminal” is a
problematic dependency – you should mock the dependency out for those
tests where the dependency is external to what you want to test.

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Ben Finney

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Testing interactive code using raw_input Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-10 15:59 +0000
  Re: Testing interactive code using raw_input Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 16:05 +0000
  Re:Testing interactive code using raw_input Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-03-10 12:40 -0400
  Re: Testing interactive code using raw_input Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-03-10 17:57 +0100
    Re: Testing interactive code using raw_input Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-11 08:26 +0000
  Re: Testing interactive code using raw_input Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-10 09:53 -0700
  Re: Testing interactive code using raw_input Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-11 10:39 +1100

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