Unit test for only root user in python

python

Solution

If you're using unittest, you can skip tests or entire test cases using `unittest.skipIf` and `unittest.skipUnless`.

Here, you could do:

import os

@unittest.skipUnless(os.getuid() == 0)  # Root has an uid of 0
def test_bla_as_root(self):
    ...

Which could be simplified in a (less readable):

@unittest.skipIf(os.getuid())

Problem

Does unit test library for python (especially 3.x, I don't really care about 2.x) has decorator to be accessed only by root user? I have this testing function. ``` def test_blabla_as_root(): self.assertEqual(blabla(), 1) ``` blabla function can only be executed by root. I want root user only decorator so normal user will skip this test: ``` @support.root_only def test_blabla_as_root(): self.assertEqual(blabla(), 1) ``` Does such decorator exist? We have @support.cpython_only decorator though.

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