https://borisquiroz.dev/tags/coding/ Recent content in Coding on Home Hugo en-us << end >> Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:38:39 -0400 https://borisquiroz.dev/posts/testing-python-exit-codes/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:38:39 -0400 https://borisquiroz.dev/posts/testing-python-exit-codes/ <p>As almost every other sysadmin I know, python is the language of choice to do some scripting. And, as we all know, testing is an important part of any development.</p> <p>My code is a simple parser that interacts with some Linux commands using <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess">subprocess</a>, which instead of raising an exception it returns something != 0. In fact, the exit code is 2. How to test that with pytest? This is what I did (which might not be <em>the best</em> way to do it):</p>