The next thing want to do is be able to pass a filename to analyze_text()
so that it knows what to process. Of course, for analyze_text()
to work this filename should refer to a file that actually exists! To make sure that a file exists for our tests, we're going to define some fixtures.
The first fixture we can define is the method TestCase.setUp()
. If defined, this method is run before each test
method in the TestCase
. In this case, we'll use setUp()
to create a file for us and remember the filename as a member of the TestCase
:
# text_analyzer.py class TextAnalysisTests(unittest.TestCase): . . . def setUp(self): "Fixture that creates a file for the text methods to use." self.filename = 'text_analysis_test_file.txt' with open(self.filename, 'w') as f: f.write('Now we are engaged in a great civil war,\n' 'testing whether that nation,\n' 'or any nation so conceived and...