Test: Disentangled the backslash mess

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Paul Beckingham 2015-07-13 00:09:15 -04:00
parent 025103528c
commit fccb44f334

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import unittest
# Ensure python finds the local simpletap module
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
from basetest import Task, TestCase
from basetest import Task, TestCase, utils
class TestBug1436(TestCase):
@ -41,21 +41,46 @@ class TestBug1436(TestCase):
def test_parser_hangs_with_slashes(self):
"""Parser hangs with backslashes"""
expected = "Cheer everyone up \o/"
code, out, err = self.t(("add", expected))
# Yes, seven:
# Python turns \\ --> \, therefore \\\\\\\o/ --> \\\\o/
# Some process launch thing does the same, therefore \\\\o/ --> \\o/
# Taskwarrior sees \\o/, which means \o/
code, out, err = self.t("add Cheer everyone up \\\\\\\o/")
self.assertIn("Created task 1", out)
code, out, err = self.t(("list",))
self.assertIn(expected, out)
code, out, err = self.t("_get 1.description")
self.assertEqual("Cheer everyone up \\o/\n", out)
def test_parser_ending_escape_slash(self):
"""Task created but not found with ending backslash"""
code, out, err = self.t(("add", "Use this backslash \\\\"))
# Yes, eight:
# Python turns \\ --> \, therefore \\\\\\\\ --> \\\\
# Some process launch thing does the same, therefore \\\\ --> \\
# Taskwarrior sees \\, which means \
code, out, err = self.t("add Use this backslash \\\\\\\\")
self.assertIn("Created task 1", out)
code, out, err = self.t(("list",))
self.assertIn("Use this backslash \\", out)
def test_backslashes(self):
"""Prove to the reader that backslashes are eaten twice (which means
\\ --> \) once by Python, and once more by some mystery process
launch thing.
This problem is entirely testing artifact, and not Taskwarrior.
"""
self.echo = Task(taskw=utils.binary_location("/bin/echo"))
code, out, err = self.echo("xxx \\\\\\\\yyy zzz") # Shows as 'xxx \\yyy zzz'
self.tap(out)
code, out, err = self.echo("xxx \\\\yyy zzz") # Shows as 'xxx \yyy zzz'
self.tap(out)
code, out, err = self.echo("xxx \\yyy zzz") # Shows as 'xxx yyy zzz'
self.tap(out)
if __name__ == "__main__":
from simpletap import TAPTestRunner