Tag "lxml.html"

"Zoom in" on rendered HTML that the test client returns

If you have this as your base class for all unit tests you can do the following: class TestViews(BaseTestCase): def test_generated_stats(self): "test that certain stuff in the response" ...create some content for testing or use fixtures... response = self.client.get('/some/page/') # At this point response.content is a huge string filled with HTML tags and # "junk" that you don't need for testing the content thus making it difficult # to debug the generated HTML because it so huge. # So we can zoom in on the <div id="stats>...</div> node html = self._zoom_html(response.content, '#stats') # the variable 'html' will now be something like this: """ <div id="stats"> <p> <strong>2</strong> students<br/> <em>1</em> warning. </p> </div> """ # This makes it easier to debug the response and easier to test # against but the HTML might still be in the way so this would fail: self.assertTrue('2 students' in html) # will fail # To strip away all html use _strip_html() content = self._strip_html(html) # Now this will work self.assertTrue('2 students' in content) # will work It works for me and I find this very useful so I thought I'd share it.