Pytest Fish shell autocompletion
Typing repetitive commands or copying and pasting test names can eat up valuable time. To help, I've created pytest.fish - a Fish shell plugin that simplifies your pytest workflow. It's lightweight, simple to set up, and makes testing more efficient.
How to Use
Autocomplete test paths
Type pytest and hit TAB to get suggestions for test paths and functions:
Support for -k filter
Narrow down tests with -k and get name suggestions:
The plugin dynamically scans your project, so suggestions stay up-to-date.
Installation
Install with Fisher:
fisher install ddoroshev/pytest.fish
Or manually copy the files from the repository into your Fish configuration.
How It Works
The plugin doesn't rely on pytest directly (yet). Instead, it scans the current directory for test files and searches for test functions inside them, making the process relatively fast and efficient.
Other shells?
Since I primarily use Fish in my local development environment, I created a plugin specifically for this shell. However, if you use Bash or Zsh, feel free to create your own - or switch to Fish already. 😉
This Week in Changelogs: flask, pytest, IPython, etc
pyenv 2.3.13, 2.3.14
Highlights from the changelog:
- added versions 3.10.10, 3.11.2, and 3.12.0a5;
- fixed versions 3.5.10 and 3.6.15 for macOS and modern 64-bit platforms.
This one made me laugh a bit:
That's how programming actually works!
TIL: head -n123 is a part of POSIX, head -123 is a shorthand that can be missing in some operating systems (pull request).
IPython 8.11.0
Highlights from the changelog:
%autoreloadsupports meaningful parameters (%autoreload all,%autoreload off, etc), not only numbers (%autoreload 0,%autoreload 2, etc).
I like the log of the pull request, it illustrates the approach of implementing a feature step-by-step, one frame at a time:
Also, this fragment is quite interesting, print and logger.info need to be used carefully for logging and protected from being overwritten during hot-reload:
p = print
logger = logging.getLogger("autoreload")
l = logger.info
def pl(msg):
p(msg)
l(msg)
Everything you wanted to know about GitHub actions:
flask 2.2.3
Although the changelog is not that big, I like the thing about flask run --debug.
Previously, it was flask --debug run , and it was awkward. The fix itself is quite small, but there's a lot of changes in docs, and also a PyCharm screenshot was changed. Nice and pure!
pytest 7.2.1, 7.2.2
The changelogs contains mostly bug fixes. One of them is about pytest.approx() causing ZeroDivisionError on dicts.
Another one fixes type checkers behaviour for the following code, which I think should be illegal:
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError) if val else contextlib.nullcontext() as excinfo:
(Please, don't write the code like this.)
And they fixed a race condition when creating directories in parallel, using os.makedirs(..., exists_ok=True). Simple, but helpful.
whitenoise 6.4.0
The changelog mentions support for Django 4.2. It was good to know, by the way, that STATICFILES_STORAGE is going to be changed to STORAGES dict (pull request).
django-cors-headers 3.14.0
- added support for Django 4.2,
- switched from
urlparsetourlsplit.
The latter is the most interesting, urlsplit is slightly faster. Also, it's cached, so sometimes you gain a huge performance.
The difference between these functions is that urlparse includes parsing of the "parameters" section of a URL:
scheme://netloc/path;parameters?query#fragment
^ this
Since it's not widely used, in most cases it's safe to switch from urlparse to urlsplit.