[TIP] Testing dependencies

[Alfredo Deza]

Hi,

I am currently working in a small project that has a couple of dependencies.

The problem is I do not need them directly (no need to import them at any
point) because I call those dependencies with subprocess.Popen

My current approach is to try an import anyway and fail with an error
message if it could not import the module:

try:
    import dependency_1
    import dependency_2
except Exception, e:
    print "DependencyError: %s" % e

Is it better to put this within the tests directory along with the other
tests?

Or maybe have them in both places: one in the main source code and the other
one in the tests directory?


Thanks


Alfredo
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