Hi Virgil,
not sure everyone is aware here (or in general) of the "monkeypatch"
funcarg injection, so i first point to an older blog post of mine about it:
http://tetamap.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/monkeypatching-in-unit-tests-done-right/
it helps a lot if you quickly and safely want to patch global
module/class attrs, dictionaries, environment variables etc.
inside a test.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:41 +0100, Virgil Dupras wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A few weeks ago I talked about the possibility of adding helpers to the
> monkeypatch module. Today, I'm publishing a new plugin which I called
> "monkeyplus" to test the water with these new helpers (patch_osstat,
> patch_today).
>
> Repository is at https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/pytest-monkeyplus
I like it from reading your docs,
https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/pytest-monkeyplus/src
Would simplify some of my tests. Maybe others have more suggestions
of what could be useful to have monkeypatch support for?
we have this currently:
monkeypatch.setattr(obj, name, value, raising=True)
monkeypatch.delattr(obj, name, raising=True)
monkeypatch.setitem(mapping, name, value)
monkeypatch.delitem(obj, name, raising=True)
monkeypatch.setenv(name, value, prepend=False)
monkeypatch.delenv(name, value, raising=True)
monkeypatch.syspath_prepend(path)
and with Virgils monkeyplus:
monkeyplus.patch_osstat('foo/bar', st_mtime=42)
monkeyplus.patch_today(year, month, day)
from my side, for consistency the names should eventually be
monkeypatch.osstat(path, **attrs)
monkeypatch.today(year, month, day)
If more people like such additions i'd be happy to incorporate
a patch for the next release.
best,
holger
> Virgil Dupras
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