Primer: Arguments vs Parameters I’m sometimes confused. Is it an argument or a parameter? So here it goes: A parameter is a variable in a function definition. When a function is called, the arguments are the data you pass into the function’s parameters. The same goes for a program: A program has parameters, you call…
Having your tests in place after reading pytest Tutorial – Part 1 and pytest Tutorial – Part 2 you certainly want to know how much of your code is actually tested by your tests. This is called coverage. Installation pip install pytest-cov Checking the coverage
In my last article pytest Tutorial Part 1 I showed some basic concepts of testing with pytest. Here are two additional concepts Parameterize Test parameterization follows the concept of DRY – Don’t repeat yourself Instead of writing a new testcase for every different value you annotate your test function and handover the different values. The…
If you are new to Pandas feel free to read Introduction to Pandas I’ve assembled some pandas code snippets Reading Data Reading CSV import pandas as pd # read from csv df = pd.read_csv(“path_to_file”) Can also be textfiles. file suffix is ignored
pip install pygame Sound import pygame if __name__ == ‘__main__’: pygame.mixer.init() sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(“./sound.wav”) channel = sound.play() while channel.get_busy(): pygame.time.wait(100) print(“Playing…”) print(“Finished.”) Music import pygame if __name__ == ‘__main__’: pygame.mixer.init() pygame.mixer.music.load(“./sound.mp3”) pygame.mixer.music.play() while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy(): pygame.time.wait(100) # ms print(“Playing…”) print(“Finished.”)
Ever wondered what these *varargs or *kwargs in python functions parameter mean? Let me explain! varargs varargs is short for variable arguments. It is declared like this: def print_person_varargs(name, *vargs): pass You can pass as many arguments as you like. In this case we pass two after the first positional argument ‘name:’ print_person_varargs(“Jörn”, 40, “Emskirchen”)…
At PyConDE Berlin 2019 Florian Bruhin gave a really nice session about testing with pytest, which I try to recap here. Writing Tests If You want to work with pytest you can install it via: pip install pytest When you know basic python unittest fixtures, good news ahead: pytest is compatible and will run your…
My Tale of Woe When I graduated from university and had my first job as a software engineer at Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH I should do the parental leave cover for a colleague. He showed me his project, gave me some info e.g. contact person and went off to Canada. Literally on the second…
Stackoverflowing around I found this nice package https://github.com/wolever/parameterized Parameterized testing in Python sucks. parameterized fixes that. For everything. Parameterized testing for nose, parameterized testing for py.test, parameterized testing for unittest. Reading this description I had very high expectations 🙂 So let’s see if the package can hold up to it.
I’ve always wanted to go to a conference and with PyConDE I’ve found one that suited me well: The price point of 300 bucks for 3 days of conference, 2 days of workshops and the opportunity to go to Berlin and visit my friend Thomas was fascinating!