Checking students’ code with edutest

edutest is a Python utility library for writing tests in the context of teaching programming. It can be used in any testing framework.

Related project

If you need to check students’ work in VPL, then you may want to use edutest together with vpltest.

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Getting edutest

Just do

pip install edutest

NB! If you have several Python versions installed then make sure you’re using correct pip.

Note

If you can’t or don’t want to use pip, then download zip file from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/edutest and extract folder edutest somewhere in your Python path.

If you need latest source, then go to https://bitbucket.org/plas/edutest.

API reference

edutest.check_function(name_or_object, arguments=[], kw_args={}, expected_result=None, inputs=[], expected_output='')

edutest.get_function(name, scope=None)

Tries to locate given function ...

edutest.get_testable_script()

edutest.import_module(name, package=None)

Works like importlib.import_module() but throws error instead of blocking when module tries to read from stdin.

edutest.set_testable_script(path)

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