On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 13:12 +0200, Anthon van der Neut wrote:
> On 2013-09-13 12:33, holger krekel wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >this was discussed before on IRC, but here is an update and a question.
> >currently pytest-trunk implements a convenient new monkeypatch.replace
> >method:
> >
> > # example usage
> > monkeypatch.replace("os.path.abspath", lambda x: "/abc")
> >
> >This effectively performs:
> >
> > import os.path
> > monkeypatch.setattr(os.path, "abspath", lambda x: "/abc")
> >
> >However, i just wanted to use it and couldn't remember the "replace"
> >name and don't find it very telling anymore. I often do something
> >like this::
> >
> > monkeypatch.setattr("os.path.abspath", lambda x: "/abc")
>
> As long as the old 3 parameter setattr is not going to be away, that
> seems fine.
> Depending on the length of the string I would probably still use the
> 3 parameter version to get the <TAB> completion on the first
> argument.
> Unfortunately just writing
>
> monkeypatch.setattr(os.path.abspath, lambda x: "/abc")
It's actually possible to make this work in many common cases,
but is bordering on the magic side.
holger
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