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Monkeypatching in unit tests, done right
[updated, thanks to marius]. I am currently preparing my testing tutorials for Pycon and here is an example i’d lke to share already. The problem: In a test function we want to patch an Environment...
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Mobiles, Python, PyPy and the Zone VM
Next week i am going to OpenBossa, a developer conference organised by Nokia’s research institute INDT in Brazil. It’s about free and open source developments on small internet devices. I’ll be talking...
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py.test: shrinks code, grows plugins and integration testing
Just before Pycon i uploaded the lean and mean py.test 1.0.0b1 beta release. A lot of code got moved out, most notably the greenlets C-extension. This simplifies packaging and increases the py lib’s...
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pylib 1.0.0 released: the testing-with-python innovations continue
Took a few betas but finally i uploaded a 1.0.0 py lib release, featuring the mature and powerful py.test tool and "execnet-style" elastic distributed programming. With the new release, there are many...
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execution locals: better than thread locals/globals
While many agree that global state is evil, the so called “thread locals” are not much better. Even though they help to separate state on a per-thread or per-greenlet basis, they still are global...
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metaprogramming in Python: What CPython, PyPy, Pyramid, pytest and politics...
Metaprogramming in Python too often revolves around metaclasses, which are just a narrow application of the “meta” idea and not a great one at that. Metaprogramming more generally deals with reasoning...
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Packaging, testing, pypi and my Pycon Russia adventures
A few days ago I talked at Pycon Russia on packaging and testing and a new PyPI Server implementation and workflow tool i am working on, codenamed devpi. See the slides and the video. The slides are...
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