script to covert unittest asserts to plain asserts

convert_assert.py

"""
Script to convert unittest asserts into plain asserts.

Either reads the file from the path passed as first parameter, or reads from stdin if no parameter is given.
"""
import functools
import sys

import libcst as cst


def to_assert(left, op=None, right=None, msg=None) -> cst.Assert:
    if right is None:
        if op is None:
            return cst.Assert(test=left, msg=msg)

        return cst.Assert(test=cst.UnaryOperation(operator=op, expression=left), msg=msg)

    return cst.Assert(
        test=cst.Comparison(
            left=left,
            comparisons=[
                cst.ComparisonTarget(
                    operator=op,
                    comparator=right,
                ),
            ],
        ),
        msg=msg,
    )


class AssertTransformer(cst.CSTTransformer):
    unary_comps = {
        "assertIsNone": lambda arg, msg: to_assert(arg, cst.Is(), cst.Name("None"), msg=msg),
        "assertIsNotNone": lambda arg, msg: to_assert(arg, cst.IsNot(), cst.Name("None"), msg=msg),
        "assertTrue": lambda arg, msg: to_assert(arg, msg=msg),
        "assertFalse": lambda arg, msg: to_assert(arg, cst.Not(), msg=msg),
    }
    binary_comps = {
        "assertEqual": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.Equal()),
        "assertNotEqual": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.NotEqual()),
        "assertIn": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.In()),
        "assertNotIn": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.NotIn()),
        "assertIs": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.Is()),
        "assertIsNot": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.IsNot()),
        "assertLess": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.LessThan()),
        "assertLessEqual": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.LessThanEqual()),
        "assertGreater": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.GreaterThan()),
        "assertGreaterEqual": functools.partial(to_assert, op=cst.GreaterThanEqual()),
    }

    def leave_Call(self, original_node: cst.Call, updated_node: cst.Call) -> cst.CSTNode:
        if isinstance(updated_node.func, cst.Attribute):
            attr = updated_node.func
            comp = attr.attr.value.strip()

            if comp in self.unary_comps:
                left = updated_node.args[0].value
                try:
                    msg = updated_node.args[1].value
                except IndexError:
                    msg = None

                return self.unary_comps[comp](arg=left, msg=msg)

            if comp in self.binary_comps:
                left = updated_node.args[0].value
                right = updated_node.args[1].value

                try:
                    msg = updated_node.args[2].value
                except IndexError:
                    msg = None

                return self.binary_comps[comp](left=left, right=right, msg=msg)

        return updated_node


def main():
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        with open(sys.argv[1]) as fd:
            code = fd.read()
    else:
        code = sys.stdin.read()

    tree = cst.parse_module(code)
    new_code = tree.visit(AssertTransformer()).code
    print(new_code)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

requires libcst

In action

Peek.2022-04-29.21-33.mp4

Nice script, thanks for sharing this @thrau ! Just gave this a try - works like a charm.. 😎