Bluehorn’s Blog

'Python' Category

• Jul

  08

  2010

  How to run a single unit test/unit test module with py.test

  Note to self: It is actually possible to select a single test module or a single test function in py.test.
  But passing the file name as argument to a py.test invocation selects only the doctest from that file (wtf!?). Instead, you need to call it like this:
  12$ py.test -k test_module    # to run the tests [...]

  posted in How-To, Python by admin

• Dec

  23

  2009

  Hitting the dynamic linker wall…

  I was working on replacing some mockup code for testing an internal library with python. Basically, the C code is incredibly big and I would rather mock the 3rd party API we are using in python. I wrote a generator to create wrapping code that forwards the C API calls to my python module.
  Now that [...]

  posted in Python by admin