# Ridiculously simple test of the os.startfile function for Windows. # # empty.vbs is an empty file (except for a comment), which does # nothing when run with cscript or wscript. # # A possible improvement would be to have empty.vbs do something that # we can detect here, to make sure that not only the os.startfile() # call succeeded, but also the script actually has run. import unittest from test import test_support import os from os import path from time import sleep startfile = test_support.get_attribute(os, 'startfile') class TestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_nonexisting(self): self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs") def test_nonexisting_u(self): self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, u"nonexisting.vbs") def test_empty(self): empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs") startfile(empty) startfile(empty, "open") # Give the child process some time to exit before we finish. # Otherwise the cleanup code will not be able to delete the cwd, # because it is still in use. sleep(0.1) def test_empty_u(self): empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs") startfile(unicode(empty, "mbcs")) startfile(unicode(empty, "mbcs"), "open") sleep(0.1) def test_main(): test_support.run_unittest(TestCase) if __name__=="__main__": test_main()