Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

[Mike Driscoll]

On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 11:23:53 AM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/19/2016 11:33 AM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 4:48:28 PM UTC-5, Andrew Farrell wrote:
> >> Hi Jacob,
> >>
> >> You are probably looking for the book Test-Driven Development with Python
> >> <http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/index.html>.
> 
> Electronic version is free online.
> 
> > I was under the impression that this book is primarily aimed at Python/Django web testing. I saw
> 
> It is.  However, the first four chapters cover the general principles of 
> TDD, so one can read them while thinking of web development as just an 
> illustrative example.
> 
> In my case, I learned better how to test IDLE from a user perspective. 
> For tkinter apps, an external program such as Selenium is not needed. 
> Tk/tkinter have the simulated event generation and introspection needed 
> to simulate a user hitting keys, clicking mouse buttons, and reading the 
> screen.
> 
> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy

I am curious. Where is this documented? Are you referring to calling the invoke() method on each widget?

Mike