pytest-dev

Download

pytest-dev@python.org

June 2021

1 participants
2 discussions

Transfer of pyfakefs to pytest-dev?
by mrbean-bremen Sept. 30, 2022

Sept. 30, 2022

After the successful transfer of pytest-order (thank you for that smooth experience!), I have been thinking about the transfer of another library - pyfakefs - where I am a contributor. I have been discussing this with the package maintainer, John McGehee, who is also in favor for this, and decided to first ask here if that is feasible. pyfakefs (https://github.com/jmcgeheeiv/pyfakefs) is a library that mocks the file system. It has originally been developed by Mike Bland at Google, later transferred to GitHub (after the shutdown of Google Code in 2011), where John McGehee has forked it, added direct support for unittest and doctest, and has maintained it since then (with my help since a few years ago). Later a contributor added support for pytest via the fs fixture, with more support for pytest following eventually. Today the fs fixture is probably the main means to access pyfakefs, judging by the issues and the dependent repositories. So, while pyfakefs is not a pure pytest plugin, and it doesn't follow the naming convention pytest-xx, we thought that it would be a good idea to transfer it to pytest-dev, with the following goals: - ensure continued maintenance - increase compatibility with pytest and pytest-plugins - improve visibility of the package, especially for pytest developers - ideally, benefit from the larger community to get more code reviews and issue reports For reference see also https://github.com/jmcgeheeiv/pyfakefs/issues/590 What do you think? Thanks! -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

5 8

Announcing pytest-accept
by Maximilian Roos June 2, 2021

June 2, 2021

I recently released pytest-accept <https://github.com/max-sixty/pytest-accept>. I'd appreciate any feedback — ideas for improvements or thoughts on the current implementation. To quote from the readme: pytest-accept is a pytest plugin for automatically updating doctest outputs. It runs doctests, observes the generated outputs, and writes them to the doctests' documented outputs. It's designed for a couple of use cases: - People who work with doctests and don't enjoy manually copying generated outputs from the pytest error log and pasting them into their doctests' documented outputs. pytest-accept does the copying & pasting for you. - People who generally find writing tests a bit annoying, and prefer to develop by "running the code and seeing whether it works". This library aims to make testing a joyful part of that development loop. pytest-accept is decoupled from the doctests it works with — it can be used with existing doctests, and the doctests it edits are no different from normal doctests. --- Thanks, Max

1 0