[Chennaipy] New learner - sugesstions regarding

[Indirajith V]

Dear all,

I am Indirajith, a new python learner. I am not sure if this is a good way
to seek help, if not I am really sorry forgive me.

Introduction:
I am involved in an open source project and try to help, improve it. The
software consists of backend python which interacts with Docker and mongo
DB. In the front end it has GUI/web interface, and REST API.

What I like to learn:
I would like to know if there is a way to call a specific function or
method in the project as to just check wether it works. For ex. I write a
function which calls docker API and interacts with a remote docker deamon.
In this case I like to test what I wrote is working as intended. But the
imports from other modules and circular imports makes it hard to just call
a single function or method.

I can only build the entire project to test it's working and make use of
logger messages. Even by this method, I have a problem, the GUI or the REST
API is not fully implemented to support all the features/ functions
implemented in the backend, and thus I am struck.

Using pythons's unittest/pytest module is the only way to just run when I
write new code or modify something? Could you guys suggest or provide
pointers to learn how to approach this situation?

Thank you & kind regards,
Indirajith.
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