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I am currently trying to unit test a module that parses and validates an XML file against a .XSD schema that I created. I want to be able to test a bunch of different XML files, but don't want to have to make a bunch of different XMLs. I was wondering if there is a way to simply use a string to create a File object that can be passed into the function I am testing.

An example might be:

File('<test><text>This is a test xml file used for testing</text></test>')

I just don't know the exact syntax to do it and can't find it. Thanks!

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    I think you want io.StringIO Commented May 20, 2021 at 21:05

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You can use StringIO for this!

import io
f = io.StringIO("<test><text>Thats a test!</text></test>")

Is just the same as

f = open("test.xml", "r", encoding="utf-8")

But without having to have an actual file!

So it should fulfil your needs

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This worked great! Thanks so much for the help!
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