#31544: Document input/output capturing utils in django.test.utils
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Reporter: Adam (Chainz) Johnson | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Testing framework | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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`django.test.utils` contains some useful helpers for input/output
capturing:
* `captured_stdin`
* `captured_stderr`
* `captured_stdout`
These can be useful for testing Django applications too, allowing users to
avoid reinventing the wheel with `mock.patch`. They've been stable for a
long time, remaining unchanged since their addition in 5 years ago in
https://github.com/django/django/commit/6dbe979b4d9396e1b307c7d27388c97c13beb21c
.
They're copied from Python's `test.support` where they've also not been
changed in a long time, but this module explicitly makes no backwards
compatibility guarantees. I think we could help Django users with
stability and discoverability by making them a public API.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/31544>
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