[Python-Dev] Does trace modules have a unit test?

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> ..
>> stdout output can be captured, but what about the .cover files? Can a Python
>> unit test create temporary files in tmp/ (or somewhere else) as part of its
>> testing, or is this forbidden?
>>
>
> That's perfectly fine.  Grep in the Lib/test directory for
> 'tempfile.mkdtemp()' to see examples.
>

Actually the first hit is Lib/test/script_helper.py which contains
several utilities that you may find useful.