Friday finking: TDD and EAFP

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2019-11-04 08:14:37 +1300, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
> Perhaps 'Python pros' don't use TDD. Which in-and-of-itself, somewhat
> answers the question!

A certain Youtube channel has T-shirts for sale with this text:

    DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
    WE ARE PROFESSIONALS
    because we get paid to do this

I get paid to write Python code, so I'm a Python professional, right?

I never really used TDD, but I was quite used to writing tests when I
was writing in Perl. The TAP framework is really simple (some might say
primitive) and the entry barrier to writing tests is extremely low.
Besides, everybody was doing it.

When I switched to Python, I mostly lost this habit. Python testing felt
clunky, Java-ish, and the other Python programmers weren't writing tests
either. 

I have since tried to get into the habit of always writing tests again,
but with limited success. unittest still feels clunky, The django
framework only works well if your problem fits exactly into a rather
narrow niche (which none of our project really fits into). I have
recently started to use pytest. That feels a bit more comfortable. We'll
see.

        hp

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