“Is this Bob or Julian?!” … yeah tweeting from our shared @pybites Twitter account can be confusing! So I made a little script to parse the location of our tweets. Then I extended it to make it testable. I wrote a decorator to cache a couple of API outputs to be used with the unittest.mock patch decorator I learned about. A simple script turned into a good learning exercise.
Articles on testing
Twitter digest 2017 week 09
By PyBites Team on 4 March 2017
On Saturdays we will share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) we found / tweeted during the week.
How To Build a Simple API with Flask and Unit Test it
By Bob Belderbos on 3 March 2017
In this post I will create a simple API with Flask and test it with curl and unit testing its HTTP methods.