TestFixtures 1.8.0 Released!

[Jack Keegan]

Appologies, please read the 2nd last line as:
Can you give me an indication of how you would go about doing this with
TestFixtures? :)

Thanks

Jack


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jack Keegan <whatsjacksemail at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm new to python and have just been looking into a solution for Mocking
> objects. In particular, at the moment, testing some code that needs to
> access hardware IOs using DLLs. I do this using Ctypes.
> However, on my dev machine, I don't have the same hardware so calling the
> DLL functions will not work as expected. Therefore I'd like to mock out the
> ctypes dll calls. Can you give me an indication of how you would go about
> doing this with Simplistix? Just so you know, I use py.test for unit
> testing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm very happy to announce the first fully-documented release of
>> TestFixtures, my collection of testing fixtures and helpers that I've been
>> collecting for the last couple of years.
>>
>> Along with my own take on a lot of the common fixtures and helpers, it has
>> some bits that I haven't seen anywhere else and so would like to point out:
>>
>> - Comparison objects for comparing objects that don't natively support
>>  comparison:
>>
>>
>> http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/comparing.html#comparison-objects
>>
>> - Helpful mock objects for when you want to test code that makes use of
>>  datetime.datetime.now, datetime.date.today or time.time:
>>
>>  http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/datetime.html
>>
>> - Helpers for capturing and checking messages logged from your code
>>  using the python logging framework:
>>
>>  http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/logging.html
>>
>> - Helpers for working with temporary directories in tests. In
>>  particular, quickly and easily creating temporary directories and
>>  files within them and making assertions about things written to them
>>  by the code under test:
>>
>>  http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/files.html
>>
>> There's plenty more in there too!
>>
>> Please do let me know what you find useful, if you find any bugs or if
>> there are any features you'd like to see added.
>>
>> The package is on PyPI and a full list of all the links to docs, issue
>> trackers and the like can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/testfixtures
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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>
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triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
- Carl Sagan [Pale Blue Dot]
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