# Ridiculously simple test of the os.startfile function for Windows. # # empty.vbs is an empty file (except for a comment), which does # nothing when run with cscript or wscript. # # A possible improvement would be to have empty.vbs do something that # we can detect here, to make sure that not only the os.startfile() # call succeeded, but also the script actually has run. import unittest from test import support import os import sys from os import path startfile = support.get_attribute(os, 'startfile') class TestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_nonexisting(self): self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs") def test_empty(self): # startfile is a little odd when it comes to handling absolute # paths, so we briefly switch to the main test directory # and use a relative path with support.change_cwd(support.TEST_HOME): empty = "empty.vbs" startfile(empty) def test_main(): support.run_unittest(TestCase) if __name__=="__main__": test_main()