Utilities

Miscellaneous methods, mainly used by other repositories.

jscc.testing.util.http_get(url)

Send and cache an HTTP GET request.

Attention

No timeout is set. If a user can input a malicious URL, the program can hang indefinitely.

Parameters:

url (str) – the URL to request

jscc.testing.util.http_head(url)

Send and cache an HTTP HEAD request.

Attention

No timeout is set. If a user can input a malicious URL, the program can hang indefinitely.

Parameters:

url (str) – the URL to request

jscc.testing.util.difference(actual, expected)

Return strings describing the differences between actual and expected sets.

Example:

>>> difference({1, 2, 3}, {3, 4, 5})
('; added {1, 2}', '; removed {4, 5}')

>>> difference({1}, {1})
('', '')

Parameters:

• actual (set) – the actual set

• expected (set) – the expected set

jscc.testing.util.warn_and_assert(paths, warn_message, assert_message)

If paths isn’t empty, issue a warning for each path, and raise an assertion error.

Parameters:

• paths (list) – file paths

• warn_message (str) – the format string for the warning message

• assert_message (str) – the error message for the assert statement