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copied!<p>The short answer is to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch" rel="nofollow noreferrer">monkey patch</a> <code>raw_input()</code>.</p> <p>There are some good examples in the answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5812333/how-to-display-the-redirected-stdin-in-python">How to display the redirected stdin in Python?</a></p> <p>Here is a simple, trivial example using a <code>lambda</code> that throws away the prompt and returns what we want.</p> <h2>System Under Test</h2> <pre><code>cat ./name_getter.py #!/usr/bin/env python class NameGetter(object): def get_name(self): self.name = raw_input('What is your name? ') def greet(self): print 'Hello, ', self.name, '!' def run(self): self.get_name() self.greet() if __name__ == '__main__': ng = NameGetter() ng.run() $ echo Derek | ./name_getter.py What is your name? Hello, Derek ! </code></pre> <h2>Test case:</h2> <pre><code>$ cat ./t_name_getter.py #!/usr/bin/env python import unittest import name_getter class TestNameGetter(unittest.TestCase): def test_get_alice(self): name_getter.raw_input = lambda _: 'Alice' ng = name_getter.NameGetter() ng.get_name() self.assertEquals(ng.name, 'Alice') def test_get_bob(self): name_getter.raw_input = lambda _: 'Bob' ng = name_getter.NameGetter() ng.get_name() self.assertEquals(ng.name, 'Bob') if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main() $ ./t_name_getter.py -v test_get_alice (__main__.TestNameGetter) ... ok test_get_bob (__main__.TestNameGetter) ... ok ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 2 tests in 0.000s OK </code></pre>

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