tappy is a set of tools for working with the Test Anything Protocol (TAP) in Python. TAP is a line based test protocol for recording test data in a standard way.

Full documentation for tappy is at Read the Docs. The information below provides a synopsis of what tappy supplies.

For the curious: tappy sounds like "happy."

tappy is available for download from PyPI. tappy is currently supported on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and PyPy.

$ pip install tap.py

Some projects have extremely heterogenous programming environments with many programming languages and tools. Because of the simplicity of TAP, the protocol can function as a lingua franca for testing. When every testing tool on a project can create TAP, a team can get a holistic view of their system. Python did not have a bridge from unittest to TAP so it was difficult to integrate a Python test suite into a larger TAP ecosystem.

tappy is Python's bridge to TAP.

1. Provide TAP Producers which translate Python's unittest into TAP.
2. Provide a TAP Consumer which reads TAP and provides a programmatic API in Python or generates summary results.
3. Provide a command line interface for reading TAP.

• TAPTestRunner - This subclass of unittest.TextTestRunner provides all the functionality of TextTestRunner and generates TAP files.
• tappy for nose - tappy provides a plugin for the nose testing tool.

• tappy - A command line tool for processing TAP files.
• Loader and Parser - Python APIs for handling of TAP files and data.