Faker package

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/18/2021 6:24 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm trying to use the faker package to generate data to load in a sample
> postgres database so I can learn how to use tksheet and psycopg2.
> 
> The 8.8.1 documentation shows output on a root shell prompt (#), not a
> python prompt (>>>). It also has a description of using faker from 'the
> command line', which I assume is the python shell, and I can't get it to
> work. I suppose that I can generate one name, address, etc. at a time and
> them copy and concatenate them into table data, but I thought that the 
> faker
> package would do this all for me.
> 
> Is there a tool that will let me generate the equivalent of a database row
> worth of data? That is, a set of strings of different types that can 
> then be
> inserted into the testing database?

I would try using the 'given' function/decorator of hypothesis (on pypi) 
to generate random data that conforms to whatever specification.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy