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Configargparse is a great drop in replacement for argparse that I use to handle bridging env vars with cli flags

https://pypi.org/project/ConfigArgParse/

jabwork

6 anni fadiscuss

Have you used pythons cffi and if so how would you differentiate this from that?

Does this work for all revisions of C? iirc cffi works for all of c89 and most of c99

jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

I ran into this same issue with python/SQLAlchemy. It's a connection pool thing

jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

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jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

For those of you using argparse I recommend looking at configargparse. A drop in replacement which adds environment variable support (similar to click) and config file support

jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

The os module ships with python, so the function call mocking os.listdir will always succeed even if the code being tested does not use os.listdir

By mocking mymodule.os.listdir you add a requirement that mymodule actually import the os module and take advantage of mock.patch failing loudly if it does not.

jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

I've wrestled with this problem several times. My conclusion was mocks are just fine, but this is a wart in that there isn't "one way to do it"

For the most part I can get by with one rule: always mock the module.

  with mock.patch('os.listdir'):

will always work, even if it doesn't accomplish what you want.

  with mock.patch('mymodule.os.listdir')

will fail if that module does not explicitly import os and instead does something like from os import listdir (perhaps because a later dev did not realize importing os directly was actually a requirement for the test and changed the code).

The rule is not perfect though. In the above case, the error will actually be

  ImportError: No module named os

This can be fixed with e.g.,

  assert hasattr(module, 'os'), "os module is not explicitly imported"

as a preamble to your test but ... it is not perfect by any means.

EDIT: formatting

jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

For the OPs context (their kids) I expect they'll have a lot of typing too do on school computers

jabwork

7 anni fadiscuss

Even Apple had the famous episode of releasing an update that bricked phones with replacement parts that weren't sanctioned. They reversed it after much public outcry.

For less common hardware the situation is just as bad. Agriculture equipment has been a pain point for many to get repaired, as the parts are much harder to find and the limited number of certified repair shops can be pressured to stop servicing equipment deemed end of life by the manufacturer

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