Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@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. -- \ “'Tis strange, — but true; for truth is always strange; / | `\ Stranger than fiction.” —“Lord” George Gordon Noel Byron, _Don | _o__) Juan_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
