Sunflower Dojo Design

An enterprise application I am developing for is processing my Python scripts using asteval. Without classes, imports, and other built-ins, this presents some interesting challenges for automated testing.

Doing a few things here: Showing log output in the console Writing log output to a file Set logger level import logging LOG_FILE = “your_log_file.log” logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Set up console handler for logging ch = logging.StreamHandler() # Set up file handler for logging fh = logging.FileHandler(LOG_FILE) # Make the log messages look nice…

Problem: I want to import a file in the same folder Problem 2: I want to import a file from a subfolder Solution: Add folder path to Python’s sys.path

So, why doesn’t nosetests run my newly created test file? Python’s nosetests out-of-the-box looks for test files that are prepended with “test_” test classes that are prepended with Test test cases inside of a test class that are prepended with “test_” However, the test files themselves cannot be marked as executable. Nosetests will ignore executable…