Mercurial > python-cmd2
changeset 116:06f5eba2f588
perfect, except testing multiline output
| author | catherine@Elli.myhome.westell.com |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:07:23 -0400 |
| parents | 0820c42ea23e |
| children | 33cd0e1bebb8 |
| files | README.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README.txt Sat Oct 25 20:47:53 2008 -0400 +++ b/README.txt Sat Oct 25 21:07:23 2008 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +---- +cmd2 +---- + +:Author: Catherine Devlin, http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com + `cmd2` is a tool for writing command-line interactive applications. It is based on the Python Standard Library's `cmd` module, and can be used anyplace `cmd` is used simply by importing `cmd2` instead. `cmd2` provides the following features, in addition to those already existing in `cmd`: @@ -12,6 +18,7 @@ - Redirection to file with `>`, `>>`; input from file with `<` - Bare '>', '>>' with no filename send output to paste buffer - Pipe output to shell commands with `|` +- Simple transcript-based application testing Instructions for implementing each feature follow. @@ -57,8 +64,6 @@ See Python standard library's `optparse` documentation: http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-defining-options.html -- Catherine Devlin, http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com - cmd2 can be installed with `easy_install cmd2` Cheese Shop page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cmd2 @@ -112,13 +117,13 @@ app.cmdloop() The following is a sample session running example.py. -Thanks to TestMyAppCase(Cmd2TestCase), it also serves as a test +Thanks to `TestMyAppCase(Cmd2TestCase)`, it also serves as a test suite for example.py when saved as `exampleSession.txt`. Running `python example.py -t` will run all the commands in the -transcript against example.py, verifying that the output produced -is as expected. +transcript against `example.py`, verifying that the output produced +matches the transcript. -exampleSession.txt:: +example/exampleSession.txt:: (Cmd) help