I have a python functional test which I am running from another function using:
unittest.main(module=ft1.y1, argv=sys.argv[:1], exit=False)
I would like to capture the output into a variable.
I've tried
out = unittest.main(module=ft1.y1, argv=sys.argv[:1], exit=False)
print 'out ' + str(out)
this results in a response of
out
What am I doing wrong?
You need to redirect sys.stdout to a string buffer.
See the answers of this question for a couple of ways to do this: Can I redirect the stdout in python into some sort of string buffer?
Why you run your unit test from another function? Why you don't use standard runner? For example
class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
...
# tests
suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(MyTestCase)
unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
p.s. I had write this post as answer, because I didn't have enough points to write it as comment.
