I would like to create a python file that can be run from the terminal - this file will be in charge of running various other python files depending on the functionality required along with their required arguments, respectively. For example, this is the main file:
import sys
from midi_to_audio import arguments, run
files = ["midi_to_audio.py"]
def main(file, args):
if file == "midi_to_audio.py":
if len(args) != arguments:
print("Incorrect argument length")
else:
run("test","t")
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.argv.pop(0)
file = sys.argv[0]
sys.argv.pop(0)
if file not in files:
print("File does not exist")
else:
main(file, sys.argv)
And this is the first file used in the example (midi_to_audio.py):
arguments = 2
def run(file, output_file):
print("Ran this method")
So depending on which file I've specified when running the cmd via the terminal, it will go into a different file and call its run method. If the arguments are not as required in each file, it will not run
For example: >python main.py midi_to_audio.py file_name_here output_name_here
My problem is that, as I add more files with their own "arguments" and "run" functions, I wonder if python is going to get confused with which arguments or which run function to execute. Is there a more safer/generic way of doing this?
Also, is there a way of getting the names of the python files depending on which files I've imported? Because for now I have to import the file and manually add their file name to the files list in main.py
Your runner could look like this, to load a module by name and check it has run, and check the arguments given on the command line, and finally dispatch to the module's run function.
import sys
import importlib
def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]
if len(args) < 1:
raise Exception("No module name given")
module_name = args.pop(0).removesuffix(".py") # grab the first argument and remove the .py suffix
module = importlib.import_module(module_name) # import a module by name
if not hasattr(module, 'run'): # check if the module has a run function
raise Exception(f"Module {module_name} does not have a run function")
arg_count = getattr(module, 'arguments', 0) # get the number of arguments the module needs
if len(args) != arg_count:
raise Exception(f"Module {module_name} requires {arg_count} arguments, got {len(args)}")
module.run(*args)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
This works with the midi_to_audio.py module in your post.
How to build a console_scripts entry to script using multiple functions (not wrapped in a single main function), and you are not the author of the script?
For background read Python: migrate setup.py "scripts=" to entry_points. The answer in this previous question is successful when the script-to-be-called has all of its desirable operations in single starting function with no arguments, such as:
if '__name__' == '__main__':
main_do_all()
and the setup.py entry is:
entry_points = {
'console_scripts': ['foobar = foobartools.foobar_cli:main_do_all'],
}
However it doesn't accommodate the script which uses multiple functions at the top level to do its thing:
if '__name__' == '__main__':
prologue(sys.argv)
do_thing()
finish()
...because console_scripts can only name one function and can't use arguments (right?)
I've been thinking what is needed is to write a wrapper script with only one function - run the real script - and call that in setup.py. However reading up on exec(), execfile(), subprocess(), popen() it looks like a can of worms, and my early attempts with exec() fared poorly, making me doubt the approach.
For a test bed, the program-of-the-moment sparking this question is mutagen, though I've run into the situation other times.
What is the right way to do this?
Test case and results
(In case of copy and paste errors, also see https://gist.github.com/maphew/865c02c9143fd954e5653a8ffb1fb441)
./my_cli/single_main.py:
# This works when 1st 3 functions are in the same file, but what to do when
# they're somewhere else, and meant to be called as a commandline script?
import sys
# --- copied from 'tools/multi_main' but we really want to run in-situ ---
def prologue(argv):
print("Arguments recieved: {}".format(argv))
def do_thing():
print("Doing something here")
def finish():
print("All done now, cleaning up")
# --- end external ---
def main():
prologue(sys.argv)
do_thing()
finish()
if __name__ == '__main__':
print("Running 'single_main' script")
main()
./my_cli/cli.py:
# ./my_cli/cli.py
# wrapper created for console_scripts to run 'tools/multi_main'
import os
import sys
here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
def multi_main(argv):
fname = os.path.join(here, '../tools', 'multi_main.py')
print(fname)
with open(fname) as f:
code = compile(f.read(), fname, 'exec')
#exec(code, global_vars, local_vars)
exec(code)
if __name__ == '__main__':
multi_main(sys.argv)
./tools/multi_main:
# ./tools/multi_main
# This file from upstream source. We want to avoid editing.
import sys
def prologue(argv):
print("Arguments recieved: {}".format(argv))
def do_thing():
print("Doing something here")
def finish():
print("All done now, cleaning up")
if __name__ == '__main__':
print("Running 'multi_main' script")
prologue(sys.argv)
do_thing()
finish()
./setup.py:
#./setup.py
import os
from setuptools import setup
setup(
name="multi_main",
description="Migrating from scripts to console_scripts entry points",
# Old, 'nix-only way
scripts=[os.path.join("tools", name) for name in [
"multi_main",
]],
# new, multi-platform way (when get to working)
entry_points = {
'console_scripts': [
'my_single_main = my_cli.single_main:main',
'my_multi_main = my_cli.cli:multi_main',
],
},
)
Shell log:
[py34_x64] D:\b\code\console_script_multi
> pip install -e .
Obtaining file:///D:/b/code/console_script_multi
Installing collected packages: multi-main
Running setup.py develop for multi-main
Successfully installed multi-main-0.0.0
[py34_x64] D:\b\code\console_script_multi
> my_single_main
Arguments recieved: ['C:\\Python34_x64\\Scripts\\my_single_main-script.py']
Doing something here
All done now, cleaning up
[py34_x64] D:\b\code\console_script_multi
> my_multi_main
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python34_x64\Scripts\my_multi_main-script.py", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('multi-main==0.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'my_multi_main')()
TypeError: multi_main() missing 1 required positional argument: 'argv'
[py34_x64] D:\b\code\console_script_multi
> multi_main
'multi_main' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
[py34_x64] D:\b\code\console_script_multi
> python c:\Python34_x64\Scripts\multi_main
Running 'multi_main' script
Arguments recieved: ['c:\\Python34_x64\\Scripts\\multi_main']
Doing something here
All done now, cleaning up
[py34_x64] D:\b\code\console_script_multi
>
I have a directory that contains my Python unit tests. Each unit test module is of the form test_*.py. I am attempting to make a file called all_test.py that will, you guessed it, run all files in the aforementioned test form and return the result. I have tried two methods so far; both have failed. I will show the two methods, and I hope someone out there knows how to actually do this correctly.
For my first valiant attempt, I thought "If I just import all my testing modules in the file, and then call this unittest.main() doodad, it will work, right?" Well, turns out I was wrong.
import glob
import unittest
testSuite = unittest.TestSuite()
test_file_strings = glob.glob('test_*.py')
module_strings = [str[0:len(str)-3] for str in test_file_strings]
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
This did not work, the result I got was:
$ python all_test.py
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.000s
OK
For my second try, I though, ok, maybe I will try to do this whole testing thing in a more "manual" fashion. So I attempted to do that below:
import glob
import unittest
testSuite = unittest.TestSuite()
test_file_strings = glob.glob('test_*.py')
module_strings = [str[0:len(str)-3] for str in test_file_strings]
[__import__(str) for str in module_strings]
suites = [unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromName(str) for str in module_strings]
[testSuite.addTest(suite) for suite in suites]
print testSuite
result = unittest.TestResult()
testSuite.run(result)
print result
#Ok, at this point I have a result
#How do I display it as the normal unit test command line output?
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
This also did not work, but it seems so close!
$ python all_test.py
<unittest.TestSuite tests=[<unittest.TestSuite tests=[<unittest.TestSuite tests=[<test_main.TestMain testMethod=test_respondes_to_get>]>]>]>
<unittest.TestResult run=1 errors=0 failures=0>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.000s
OK
I seem to have a suite of some sort, and I can execute the result. I am a little concerned about the fact that it says I have only run=1, seems like that should be run=2, but it is progress. But how do I pass and display the result to main? Or how do I basically get it working so I can just run this file, and in doing so, run all the unit tests in this directory?
With Python 2.7 and higher you don't have to write new code or use third-party tools to do this; recursive test execution via the command line is built-in. Put an __init__.py in your test directory and:
python -m unittest discover <test_directory>
# or
python -m unittest discover -s <directory> -p '*_test.py'
You can read more in the python 2.7
or python 3.x unittest documentation.
Update for 2021:
Lots of modern python projects use more advanced tools like pytest. For example, pull down matplotlib or scikit-learn and you will see they both use it.
It is important to know about these newer tools because when you have more than 7000 tests you need:
more advanced ways to summarize what passes, skipped, warnings, errors
easy ways to see how they failed
percent complete as it is running
total run time
ways to generate a test report
etc etc
In python 3, if you're using unittest.TestCase:
You must have an empty (or otherwise) __init__.py file in your test directory (must be named test/)
Your test files inside test/ match the pattern test_*.py.
They can be inside a subdirectory under test/. Those subdirs can be named as anything, but they all need to have an __init__.py file in them
Then, you can run all the tests with:
python -m unittest
Done! A solution less than 100 lines. Hopefully another python beginner saves time by finding this.
You could use a test runner that would do this for you. nose is very good for example. When run, it will find tests in the current tree and run them.
Updated:
Here's some code from my pre-nose days. You probably don't want the explicit list of module names, but maybe the rest will be useful to you.
testmodules = [
'cogapp.test_makefiles',
'cogapp.test_whiteutils',
'cogapp.test_cogapp',
]
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
for t in testmodules:
try:
# If the module defines a suite() function, call it to get the suite.
mod = __import__(t, globals(), locals(), ['suite'])
suitefn = getattr(mod, 'suite')
suite.addTest(suitefn())
except (ImportError, AttributeError):
# else, just load all the test cases from the module.
suite.addTest(unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromName(t))
unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite)
This is now possible directly from unittest: unittest.TestLoader.discover.
import unittest
loader = unittest.TestLoader()
start_dir = 'path/to/your/test/files'
suite = loader.discover(start_dir)
runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()
runner.run(suite)
Well by studying the code above a bit (specifically using TextTestRunner and defaultTestLoader), I was able to get pretty close. Eventually I fixed my code by also just passing all test suites to a single suites constructor, rather than adding them "manually", which fixed my other problems. So here is my solution.
import glob
import unittest
test_files = glob.glob('test_*.py')
module_strings = [test_file[0:len(test_file)-3] for test_file in test_files]
suites = [unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromName(test_file) for test_file in module_strings]
test_suite = unittest.TestSuite(suites)
test_runner = unittest.TextTestRunner().run(test_suite)
Yeah, it is probably easier to just use nose than to do this, but that is besides the point.
If you want to run all the tests from various test case classes and you're happy to specify them explicitly then you can do it like this:
from unittest import TestLoader, TextTestRunner, TestSuite
from uclid.test.test_symbols import TestSymbols
from uclid.test.test_patterns import TestPatterns
if __name__ == "__main__":
loader = TestLoader()
tests = [
loader.loadTestsFromTestCase(test)
for test in (TestSymbols, TestPatterns)
]
suite = TestSuite(tests)
runner = TextTestRunner(verbosity=2)
runner.run(suite)
where uclid is my project and TestSymbols and TestPatterns are subclasses of TestCase.
I have used the discover method and an overloading of load_tests to achieve this result in a (minimal, I think) number lines of code:
def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
''' Discover and load all unit tests in all files named ``*_test.py`` in ``./src/``
'''
suite = TestSuite()
for all_test_suite in unittest.defaultTestLoader.discover('src', pattern='*_tests.py'):
for test_suite in all_test_suite:
suite.addTests(test_suite)
return suite
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
Execution on fives something like
Ran 27 tests in 0.187s
OK
I tried various approaches but all seem flawed or I have to makeup some code, that's annoying. But there's a convinient way under linux, that is simply to find every test through certain pattern and then invoke them one by one.
find . -name 'Test*py' -exec python '{}' \;
and most importantly, it definitely works.
In case of a packaged library or application, you don't want to do it. setuptools will do it for you.
To use this command, your project’s tests must be wrapped in a unittest test suite by either a function, a TestCase class or method, or a module or package containing TestCase classes. If the named suite is a module, and the module has an additional_tests() function, it is called and the result (which must be a unittest.TestSuite) is added to the tests to be run. If the named suite is a package, any submodules and subpackages are recursively added to the overall test suite.
Just tell it where your root test package is, like:
setup(
# ...
test_suite = 'somepkg.test'
)
And run python setup.py test.
File-based discovery may be problematic in Python 3, unless you avoid relative imports in your test suite, because discover uses file import. Even though it supports optional top_level_dir, but I had some infinite recursion errors. So a simple solution for a non-packaged code is to put the following in __init__.py of your test package (see load_tests Protocol).
import unittest
from . import foo, bar
def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTests(loader.loadTestsFromModule(foo))
suite.addTests(loader.loadTestsFromModule(bar))
return suite
This is an old question, but what worked for me now (in 2019) is:
python -m unittest *_test.py
All my test files are in the same folder as the source files and they end with _test.
I use PyDev/LiClipse and haven't really figured out how to run all tests at once from the GUI. (edit: you right click the root test folder and choose Run as -> Python unit-test
This is my current workaround:
import unittest
def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
return loader.discover('.')
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
I put this code in a module called all in my test directory. If I run this module as a unittest from LiClipse then all tests are run. If I ask to only repeat specific or failed tests then only those tests are run. It doesn't interfere with my commandline test runner either (nosetests) -- it's ignored.
You may need to change the arguments to discover based on your project setup.
Based on the answer of Stephen Cagle I added support for nested test modules.
import fnmatch
import os
import unittest
def all_test_modules(root_dir, pattern):
test_file_names = all_files_in(root_dir, pattern)
return [path_to_module(str) for str in test_file_names]
def all_files_in(root_dir, pattern):
matches = []
for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(root_dir):
for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, pattern):
matches.append(os.path.join(root, filename))
return matches
def path_to_module(py_file):
return strip_leading_dots( \
replace_slash_by_dot( \
strip_extension(py_file)))
def strip_extension(py_file):
return py_file[0:len(py_file) - len('.py')]
def replace_slash_by_dot(str):
return str.replace('\\', '.').replace('/', '.')
def strip_leading_dots(str):
while str.startswith('.'):
str = str[1:len(str)]
return str
module_names = all_test_modules('.', '*Tests.py')
suites = [unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromName(mname) for mname
in module_names]
testSuite = unittest.TestSuite(suites)
runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=1)
runner.run(testSuite)
The code searches all subdirectories of . for *Tests.py files which are then loaded. It expects each *Tests.py to contain a single class *Tests(unittest.TestCase) which is loaded in turn and executed one after another.
This works with arbitrary deep nesting of directories/modules, but each directory in between needs to contain an empty __init__.py file at least. This allows the test to load the nested modules by replacing slashes (or backslashes) by dots (see replace_slash_by_dot).
I just created a discover.py file in my base test directory and added import statements for anything in my sub directories. Then discover is able to find all my tests in those directories by running it on discover.py
python -m unittest discover ./test -p '*.py'
# /test/discover.py
import unittest
from test.package1.mod1 import XYZTest
from test.package1.package2.mod2 import ABCTest
...
if __name__ == "__main__"
unittest.main()
Encountered the same issue.
The solution is to add an empty __init__.py to each folder and uses python -m unittest discover -s
Project Structure
tests/
__init__.py
domain/
value_object/
__init__.py
test_name.py
__init__.py
presentation/
__init__.py
test_app.py
And running the command
python -m unittest discover -s tests/domain
To get the expected outcome
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.007s
Because Test discovery seems to be a complete subject, there is some dedicated framework to test discovery :
nose
Py.Test
More reading here : https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy
This BASH script will execute the python unittest test directory from ANYWHERE in the file system, no matter what working directory you are in: its working directory always be where that test directory is located.
ALL TESTS, independent $PWD
unittest Python module is sensitive to your current directory, unless you tell it where (using discover -s option).
This is useful when staying in the ./src or ./example working directory and you need a quick overall unit test:
#!/bin/bash
this_program="$0"
dirname="`dirname $this_program`"
readlink="`readlink -e $dirname`"
python -m unittest discover -s "$readlink"/test -v
SELECTED TESTS, independent $PWD
I name this utility file: runone.py and use it like this:
runone.py <test-python-filename-minus-dot-py-fileextension>
#!/bin/bash
this_program="$0"
dirname="`dirname $this_program`"
readlink="`readlink -e $dirname`"
(cd "$dirname"/test; python -m unittest $1)
No need for a test/__init__.py file to burden your package/memory-overhead during production.
I have no package and as mentioned on this page, this is creating issue while issing dicovery. So, I used the following solution. All the test result will be put in a given output folder.
RunAllUT.py:
"""
The given script is executing all the Unit Test of the project stored at the
path %relativePath2Src% currently fixed coded for the given project.
Prerequired:
- Anaconda should be install
- For the current user, an enviornment called "mtToolsEnv" should exists
- xmlrunner Library should be installed
"""
import sys
import os
import xmlrunner
from Repository import repository
relativePath2Src="./../.."
pythonPath=r'"C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.conda\envs\YourConfig\python.exe"'
outputTestReportFolder=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))+r'\test-reports' #subfolder in current file path
class UTTesting():
"""
Class tto run all the UT of the project
"""
def __init__(self):
"""
Initiate instance
Returns
-------
None.
"""
self.projectRepository = repository()
self.UTfile = [] #List all file
def retrieveAllUT(self):
"""
Generate the list of UT file in the project
Returns
-------
None.
"""
print(os.path.realpath(relativePath2Src))
self.projectRepository.retriveAllFilePaths(relativePath2Src)
#self.projectRepository.printAllFile() #debug
for file2scan in self.projectRepository.devfile:
if file2scan.endswith("_UT.py"):
self.UTfile.append(file2scan)
print(self.projectRepository.devfilepath[file2scan]+'/'+file2scan)
def runUT(self,UTtoRun):
"""
Run a single UT
Parameters
----------
UTtoRun : String
File Name of the UT
Returns
-------
None.
"""
print(UTtoRun)
if UTtoRun in self.projectRepository.devfilepath:
UTtoRunFolderPath=os.path.realpath(os.path.join(self.projectRepository.devfilepath[UTtoRun]))
UTtoRunPath = os.path.join(UTtoRunFolderPath, UTtoRun)
print(UTtoRunPath)
#set the correct execution context & run the test
os.system(" cd " + UTtoRunFolderPath + \
" & " + pythonPath + " " + UTtoRunPath + " " + outputTestReportFolder )
def runAllUT(self):
"""
Run all the UT contained in self
The function "retrieveAllUT" sjould ahve been performed before
Returns
-------
None.
"""
for UTfile in self.UTfile:
self.runUT(UTfile)
if __name__ == "__main__":
undertest=UTTesting()
undertest.retrieveAllUT()
undertest.runAllUT()
In my project specific, I have a class that I used in other script. This might be an overkill for your usecase.
Repository.py
import os
class repository():
"""
Class that decribed folder and file in a repository
"""
def __init__(self):
"""
Initiate instance
Returns
-------
None.
"""
self.devfile = [] #List all file
self.devfilepath = {} #List all file paths
def retriveAllFilePaths(self,pathrepo):
"""
Retrive all files and their path in the class
Parameters
----------
pathrepo : Path used for the parsin
Returns
-------
None.
"""
for path, subdirs, files in os.walk(pathrepo):
for file_name in files:
self.devfile.append(file_name)
self.devfilepath[file_name] = path
def printAllFile(self):
"""
Display all file with paths
Parameters
----------
def printAllFile : TYPE
DESCRIPTION.
Returns
-------
None.
"""
for file_loop in self.devfile:
print(self.devfilepath[file_loop]+'/'+file_loop)
In your test files, you need to have a main like this:
if __name__ == "__main__":
import xmlrunner
import sys
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
outputFolder = sys.argv.pop() #avoid conflic with unittest.main
else:
outputFolder = r'test-reports'
print("Report will be created and store there: " + outputFolder)
unittest.main(testRunner=xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(output=outputFolder))
Here is my approach by creating a wrapper to run tests from the command line:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os, sys, unittest, argparse, inspect, logging
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Parse arguments.
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
parser.add_argument("-?", "--help", action="help", help="show this help message and exit" )
parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true", dest="verbose", help="increase output verbosity" )
parser.add_argument("-d", "--debug", action="store_true", dest="debug", help="show debug messages" )
parser.add_argument("-h", "--host", action="store", dest="host", help="Destination host" )
parser.add_argument("-b", "--browser", action="store", dest="browser", help="Browser driver.", choices=["Firefox", "Chrome", "IE", "Opera", "PhantomJS"] )
parser.add_argument("-r", "--reports-dir", action="store", dest="dir", help="Directory to save screenshots.", default="reports")
parser.add_argument('files', nargs='*')
args = parser.parse_args()
# Load files from the arguments.
for filename in args.files:
exec(open(filename).read())
# See: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/q/88655/15346
def make_suite(tc_class):
testloader = unittest.TestLoader()
testnames = testloader.getTestCaseNames(tc_class)
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
for name in testnames:
suite.addTest(tc_class(name, cargs=args))
return suite
# Add all tests.
alltests = unittest.TestSuite()
for name, obj in inspect.getmembers(sys.modules[__name__]):
if inspect.isclass(obj) and name.startswith("FooTest"):
alltests.addTest(make_suite(obj))
# Set-up logger
verbose = bool(os.environ.get('VERBOSE', args.verbose))
debug = bool(os.environ.get('DEBUG', args.debug))
if verbose or debug:
logging.basicConfig( stream=sys.stdout )
root = logging.getLogger()
root.setLevel(logging.INFO if verbose else logging.DEBUG)
ch = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
ch.setLevel(logging.INFO if verbose else logging.DEBUG)
ch.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(name)s: %(message)s'))
root.addHandler(ch)
else:
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)
# Run tests.
result = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(alltests)
sys.exit(not result.wasSuccessful())
For sake of simplicity, please excuse my non-PEP8 coding standards.
Then you can create BaseTest class for common components for all your tests, so each of your test would simply look like:
from BaseTest import BaseTest
class FooTestPagesBasic(BaseTest):
def test_foo(self):
driver = self.driver
driver.get(self.base_url + "/")
To run, you simply specifying tests as part of the command line arguments, e.g.:
./run_tests.py -h http://example.com/ tests/**/*.py