Skipping decorators in unit tests

[Cameron Simpson]

On 10Oct2013 07:00, Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
> (explaining the title) : my app has functions and methods (and
> maybe classes in the future) that are decorated by decorators
> provided by the standard library or 3rd party packages.
> 
> But I need to test "undecorated" functions and methods in my unit tests, preferably without adding "special stuffs" in my target tested modules.
> 
> Can someone point out good practices or dedicated tools that "remove temporarily" the decorations.
> I pasted a small example of what I heed at http://pastebin.com/20CmHQ7Y

Speaking for myself, I would be include to recast this code:

  @absolutize
  def addition(a, b):
      return a + b

into:

  def _addition(a, b):
      return a + b

  addition = absolutize(_addition)

Then you can unit test both _addition() and addition().

And so forth.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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