alice1017/streamtest

Python unittest.TestCase for testing the output of standard stream(stdout, stderr).

streamtest - unit test the output of standard stream

Overview

The streamtest provides the enhanced unittest.TestCase for testing the output of standard stream (stdout, stderr).

Usage

from stramtest import CatchStreamTestCase

class StreamTestCase(CatchStreamTestCase):

    def test_stdout(self):

        with self.catch_stream("stdout") as stream:
            print "hello world"

        self.assertEqual(stream, "hello world\n")

    def test_stderr(self):

        with self.catch_stream("stderr") as stream:
            sys.stderr.write("Error!")

        self.assertEqual(stream, "Error!")

Installation

$ pip install streamtest

or

$ git clone git@github.com:alice1017/streamtest.git
$ cd streamtest
$ python setup.py build install