How to test a Python script with an input file filled with testcases?

Question

I'm participating in online judge contests and I want to test my code with a .in file full of testcases to time my algorithm. How can I get my script to take input from this .in file?

Answer 1

So the script normally takes test cases from stdin, and now you want to test using test cases from a file?

If that is the case, use the < redirection operation on the cmd line:

my_script < testcases.in

Answer 2

Read from file(s) and/or stdin:

import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input():
    process(line)

Answer 3

PyUnit "the standard unit testing framework for Python" might be what you are looking for.

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Doing a small script that does something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys

def main():
    in_file = open('path_to_file')
    for line in in_file:
        sys.stdout.write(line)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

And run as

this_script.py | your_app.py

Answer 4

You can do this in a separate file.

testmyscript.py

import sys
someFile= open( "somefile.in", "r" )
sys.stdin= someFile
execfile( "yourscript.py" )