def test_get_biom_project_dir(self):
"""Getting the biom project directory functions as expected.
This method is ported from QIIME (http://www.qiime.org). QIIME is a GPL
project, but we obtained permission from the authors of this method to
port it to the BIOM Format project (and keep it under BIOM's BSD
license).
"""
# Do an explicit check on whether the file system containing
# the current file is case insensitive. This is in response
# to SF bug #2945548, where this test would fail on certain
# unusual circumstances on case-insensitive file systems
# because the case of abspath(__file__) was inconsistent.
# (If you don't believe this, set case_insensitive_filesystem
# to False, and rename your top-level biom-format directory as
# Biom-format on OS X. That should cause this test to fail as
# actual will be path/to/Biom-format and expected will be
# path/to/biom-format.) Note that we don't need to change anything
# in the get_biom_project_dir() function as if the
# file system is case insenstive, the case of the returned
# string is irrelevant.
case_insensitive_filesystem = \
exists(__file__.upper()) and exists(__file__.lower())
actual = get_biom_project_dir()
# I base the expected here off the imported location of
# biom/util.py here, to handle cases where either the user
# has biom-format in their PYTHONPATH, or when they've installed it
# with setup.py.
# If util.py moves this test will fail -- that
# is what we want in this case, as the get_biom_project_dir()
# function would need to be modified.
import biom.util
util_py_filepath = abspath(abspath(biom.util.__file__))
expected = dirname(dirname(dirname(util_py_filepath)))
if case_insensitive_filesystem:
# Make both lowercase if the file system is case insensitive.
actual = actual.lower()
expected = expected.lower()
self.assertEqual(actual, expected)
def test_get_biom_project_dir(self):
"""Getting the biom project directory functions as expected.
This method is ported from QIIME (http://www.qiime.org). QIIME is a GPL
project, but we obtained permission from the authors of this method to
port it to the BIOM Format project (and keep it under BIOM's BSD
license).
"""
# Do an explicit check on whether the file system containing
# the current file is case insensitive. This is in response
# to SF bug #2945548, where this test would fail on certain
# unusual circumstances on case-insensitive file systems
# because the case of abspath(__file__) was inconsistent.
# (If you don't believe this, set case_insensitive_filesystem
# to False, and rename your top-level biom-format directory as
# Biom-format on OS X. That should cause this test to fail as
# actual will be path/to/Biom-format and expected will be
# path/to/biom-format.) Note that we don't need to change anything
# in the get_biom_project_dir() function as if the
# file system is case insenstive, the case of the returned
# string is irrelevant.
case_insensitive_filesystem = \
exists(__file__.upper()) and exists(__file__.lower())
actual = get_biom_project_dir()
# I base the expected here off the imported location of
# biom/util.py here, to handle cases where either the user
# has biom-format in their PYTHONPATH, or when they've installed it
# with setup.py.
# If util.py moves this test will fail -- that
# is what we want in this case, as the get_biom_project_dir()
# function would need to be modified.
import biom.util
util_py_filepath = abspath(abspath(biom.util.__file__))
expected = dirname(dirname(dirname(util_py_filepath)))
if case_insensitive_filesystem:
# Make both lowercase if the file system is case insensitive.
actual = actual.lower()
expected = expected.lower()
self.assertEqual(actual, expected)
