Added can_clip declaration inside Windows code section for purposes of unit testsing.

Also added a unit test for running a python script.

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cmd2.py b/cmd2.py
index 537c28b1..1f4698f5 100755
--- a/cmd2.py
+++ b/cmd2.py
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ to be installed on operating system.
 
 if sys.platform == "win32":
     # Running on Windows
+    can_clip = False
     try:
         import win32clipboard
 
@@ -255,11 +256,12 @@ if sys.platform == "win32":
             win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
             win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(txt)
             win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
+
+        can_clip = True
     except ImportError:
         def get_paste_buffer(*args):
             raise OSError(pastebufferr % ('pywin32', 'Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/'))
 
-
         write_to_paste_buffer = get_paste_buffer
 elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
     # Running on Mac OS X
diff --git a/tests/script.py b/tests/script.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..30d45960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/script.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+print("This is a python script running ...")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_cmd2.py b/tests/test_cmd2.py
index 94db1a8d..6b071035 100644
--- a/tests/test_cmd2.py
+++ b/tests/test_cmd2.py
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ def test_base_py(base_app, capsys):
     assert out.rstrip() == '3'
 
 
+def test_base_run_python_script(base_app, capsys, request):
+    test_dir = os.path.dirname(request.module.__file__)
+    python_script = os.path.join(test_dir, 'script.py')
+    expected = 'This is a python script running ...\n'
+
+    run_cmd(base_app, "py run('{}')".format(python_script))
+    out, err = capsys.readouterr()
+    assert out == expected
+
+
 def test_base_error(base_app):
     out = run_cmd(base_app, 'meow')
     assert out == ["*** Unknown syntax: meow"]