[TIP] Flexmock 0.7.3 released

Jorge Vargas jorge.vargas at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 04:58:15 PST 2011


This looks great. Thanks for the pointer I didn't knew it exist. I
particularly love this section of the docs
http://has207.github.com/flexmock/compare.html as it explains directly
how it's better (or worse) than the competition. Thanks for sharring !

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Herman Sheremetyev <herman at swebpage.com> wrote:
> Hello python-testers,
>
> Version 0.7.3 of Flexmock is out. The latest version is stable with
> all known issues fixed and has support for py.test, nose as well as
> unittest.
>
> You can download from PyPI:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/flexmock
>
> Or install with easy_install:
>
> $ sudo easy_install flexmock
>
> About Flexmock:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Flexmock is a mock/stub/spy library for Python.
>
> Its API is inspired by a Ruby library of the same name. However, it is
> not a goal of Python Flexmock to be a clone of the Ruby version.
> Instead, the focus is on providing full support for testing Python
> programs and making the creation of fake objects as unobtrusive as
> possible.
>
> As a result, Python Flexmock removes a number of redandancies in the
> Ruby Flexmock API, alters some defaults, and introduces a number of
> Python-only features.
>
> Flexmock’s design focuses on simplicity and intuitivenes. This means
> that the API is as lean as possible, though a few convenient
> short-hand methods are provided to aid brevity and readability.
>
> Flexmock declarations are structured to read more like English
> sentences than API calls, and it is possible to chain them together in
> any order to achieve high degree of expressiveness in a single line of
> code.
>
> Extensive documentation available at:
>
> http://has207.github.com/flexmock/
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Herman
>
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