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Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

You're reading from   Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators Write scripts and automate them for real-world administration tasks using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133226
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Python Scripting Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Debugging and Profiling Python Scripts 3. Unit Testing - Introduction to the Unit Testing Framework 4. Automating Regular Administrative Activities 5. Handling Files, Directories, and Data 6. File Archiving, Encrypting, and Decrypting 7. Text Processing and Regular Expressions 8. Documentation and Reporting 9. Working with Various Files 10. Basic Networking - Socket Programming 11. Handling Emails Using Python Scripting 12. Remote Monitoring of Hosts Over Telnet and SSH 13. Building Graphical User Interfaces 14. Working with Apache and Other Log Files 15. SOAP and REST API Communication 16. Web Scraping - Extracting Useful Data from Websites 17. Statistics Gathering and Reporting 18. MySQL and SQLite Database Administrations 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Methods used in unit testing

Whenever we use unittest, there are some methods we use in our script. These methods are the following:

  • assertEqual() and assertNotEqual(): This checks for an expected result
  • assertTrue() and assertFalse(): This verifies a condition
  • assertRaises(): This verifies that a specific exception gets raised
  • setUp() and tearDown(): This defines instructions that are executed before and after each test method

You can use the unittest module from the command line as well. So, you can run the previous test script as follows:

student@ubuntu:~$ python3 -m unittest test_addition.py
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 3 tests in 0.000s

OK

Now, we will see another example. We will create two scripts: if_example.py and test_if.py. if_example.py will be our normal script and test_if.py will contain test case. In this test, we...

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