A bit of background on unicode and UTF-8: Unicode has a different way of thinking about characters. In Unicode, the letter “A“ is a platonic ideal. It’s just floating in…
Python PDB
Last month I attended PyMunich conference and in this blog post I want to highlight a talk by Philip Bauer (“Debug like a pro. How to become a better programmer through…
Releasing Python Packages
When you need to fix a bug, add feature or change existing functionality in a library that you are using there are several ways to do this. Here I will…
How to mock ‘open’ built-in function
Here is a code snippet on how to test open built-in function: Code to test: def my_function(self, id: int) -> None: file_path = ‘path/to/files/{}.txt’.format(id) with open(file_path, ‘w’) as f: f.write(‘< My data…
How to mock __import__ built-in function
So lets say we need to write unit test for piece of code that uses __import__ built-in function: def task_we_want_to_test(task_name: str, task_class: str, env: dict) -> Task: module = __import__(…
Git branch naming convention
The naming convention, I propose, have four sections: Story Type: add == Add Feature fix == Fix, Hotfix, Bug, … clean == Cleanup, Chore, … modify == Modify existing functionality Short Summary: 2-3…
Lessons learned from EuroPython 2016
This was my first EuroPython conference and I had high expectations because I heard a lot of good things about it. I must say that overall it didn’t let me…
PostgreSQL quick examples
My cheat sheet for postgresql. Also pgcli is a really nice tool to use. IMO with it you don’t need any “phpMyAdmin” tools. Update query: UPDATE blogs SET posts=0, pages=0, plugins=0, health_score=0…
More Python mocking: dictionary
In previous post we look at how basic mocking works and some examples. Today we will see how you can mock dict : post = { “name”: “test”, “content”: “tist”, }…
Unit testing in Python with mock
Before we start writing tests let’s make sure that we understand why do we want to write unit tests and the concept of unit testing. Here are a few reasons (from my…