IPython/testing/tools.py

"""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 <[e-mail]>
"""

#*****************************************************************************
#       Copyright (C) 2009 The IPython Development Team
#
#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
#*****************************************************************************

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Required modules and packages
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

import os
import sys

import nose.tools as nt

from IPython.utils import genutils
from IPython.testing import decorators as dec

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Globals
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Make a bunch of nose.tools assert wrappers that can be used in test
# generators.  This will expose an assert* function for each one in nose.tools.

_tpl = """
def %(name)s(*a,**kw):
    return nt.%(name)s(*a,**kw)
"""

for _x in [a for a in dir(nt) if a.startswith('assert')]:
    exec _tpl % dict(name=_x)

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Functions and classes
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


def 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']
    """

    files = genutils.list_strings(files)
    base = os.path.split(startPath)[0]
    return [ os.path.join(base,f) for f in files ]