import unittest from main import * # test saving file class savingFileTest(unittest.TestCase): def test_text_file(self): print('Testing save_input method \n') old_file_content = 'testing\n\n\nmore testing' with open('test.txt', 'w') as file: file.write(old_file_content) script_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) test_file_path = script_path + '\\test.txt' newpath = save_input(test_file_path) new_file_content = '' with open(newpath, 'r') as new_file: for line in new_file: new_file_content += line self.assertEqual(old_file_content, new_file_content) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main()