Create new environment: conda create –name sandbox python=3.5 Create the environment from the environment.yml file: conda env create -f environment.yml Activate specific environment: source activate sandbox Export your active environment to a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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__(…
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…
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”, }…
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…