
190: Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick
06/21/22 • 51 min
PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python.
cPython is implemented in C.
PyPy is implemented in Python.
What does that mean?
And how do you test something as huge as an alternative implementation of Python?
Special Guest: Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick.
Links:
Help support the show AND learn pytest:
- The Complete pytest course is now a bundle, with each part available separately.
- pytest Primary Power teaches the super powers of pytest that you need to learn to use pytest effectively.
- Using pytest with Projects has lots of "when you need it" sections like debugging failed tests, mocking, testing strategy, and CI
- Then pytest Booster Rockets can help with advanced parametrization and building plugins.
- Whether you need to get started with pytest today, or want to power up your pytest skills, PythonTest has a course for you.
PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python.
cPython is implemented in C.
PyPy is implemented in Python.
What does that mean?
And how do you test something as huge as an alternative implementation of Python?
Special Guest: Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick.
Links:
Help support the show AND learn pytest:
- The Complete pytest course is now a bundle, with each part available separately.
- pytest Primary Power teaches the super powers of pytest that you need to learn to use pytest effectively.
- Using pytest with Projects has lots of "when you need it" sections like debugging failed tests, mocking, testing strategy, and CI
- Then pytest Booster Rockets can help with advanced parametrization and building plugins.
- Whether you need to get started with pytest today, or want to power up your pytest skills, PythonTest has a course for you.
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189: attrs and dataclasses - Hynek Schlawack
In Python, before dataclasses, we had attrs.
Before attrs, it wasn't pretty.
The story of attrs and dataclasses is actually intertwined.
They've built on each other.
And in the middle of it all, Hynek.
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Links:
- attrs documentation
- History of attrs and introduction to attrs namespace
- cattrs: Complex custom class converters for attrs. — python-attrs
- PEP 557 – Data Classes
- PEP 681 – Data Class Transforms
Help support the show AND learn pytest:
- The Complete pytest course is now a bundle, with each part available separately.
- pytest Primary Power teaches the super powers of pytest that you need to learn to use pytest effectively.
- Using pytest with Projects has lots of "when you need it" sections like debugging failed tests, mocking, testing strategy, and CI
- Then pytest Booster Rockets can help with advanced parametrization and building plugins.
- Whether you need to get started with pytest today, or want to power up your pytest skills, PythonTest has a course for you.
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191: Running your own site for fun and absolutely no profit whatsoever - Brian Wisti
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- rsync
- Internet Archive : archive.org
- Rich
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- jamstack.org
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Help support the show AND learn pytest:
- The Complete pytest course is now a bundle, with each part available separately.
- pytest Primary Power teaches the super powers of pytest that you need to learn to use pytest effectively.
- Using pytest with Projects has lots of "when you need it" sections like debugging failed tests, mocking, testing strategy, and CI
- Then pytest Booster Rockets can help with advanced parametrization and building plugins.
- Whether you need to get started with pytest today, or want to power up your pytest skills, PythonTest has a course for you.
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