first tests, and disable logging while testing

.coveragerc

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [run]
 branch = false
-omit = wakatime/packages/*
+omit =
+    wakatime/packages/*

dev-requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 coverage==3.7.1
+mock==1.3.0
 nose==1.3.7
 nose-exclude==0.3.0

tests/test_wakatime_base.py

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+
+import logging
+import unittest
+
+try:
+    from mock import patch
+except:
+    from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from wakatime.base import main
+
+
+@patch('requests.post')
+class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        # disable logging while testing
+        logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL)
+
+    def test_help_contents(self, mock_post):
+        with self.assertRaises(SystemExit):
+            args = ['', '--help']
+            retval = main(args)
+            self.assertEquals(retval, 0)
+
+    def test_argument_parsing(self, mock_post):
+        args = ['', '--file', 'tests/samples/emptyfile.txt']
+        retval = main(args)
+        self.assertEquals(retval, 0)

wakatime/base.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import traceback
 import socket
 try:
     import ConfigParser as configparser
-except ImportError:
+except ImportError:  # pragma: nocover
     import configparser
 
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ from .session_cache import SessionCache
 from .stats import get_file_stats
 try:
     from .packages import tzlocal
-except:
+except:  # pragma: nocover
     from .packages import tzlocal3 as tzlocal