[Web-SIG] Dealing with urllib, urllib2, and urlparse

[Ian Bicking]

Joe Gregorio wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>>  I guess this is a test-related feature request: something that would be
>>  nice, and that I don't believe httplib2 specifically allows (though
>>  maybe I am unaware of it) is a clear/documented way to mock http calls.
>>   wsgi_intercept provides this in a kind of general way, and includes
>>  some httplib2 support, but direct support in httplib2 (and the stdlib)
>>  would be very nice, and I think encourage people to do better testing.
> 
> I have a MockHttp in another project that I use for testing code
> that uses httplib2, is this what you'd like to see included in
> httplib2 itself?
> 
>   http://code.google.com/p/feedvalidator/source/browse/trunk/apptestsuite/client/atompubbase/tests/mockhttp.py

Yes, more or less.  Only taking from files on disk is less flexible than 
a WSGI application, so that more general interface would also be nice 
(though having both would be good too).

   Ian