[TIP] Testing Flask apps in a pyvenv environment

[Randy Syring]

>
> Is there a reason py.test can't find the flask module in the pyvenv 
> created virtual environment? 

Are you sure you are using py.test from your virtualenv and not from the 
system?  Run `py.test --version` to help with this:
> (foo)rsyring at loftex:~$ py.test --version
> This is pytest version 2.7.1, imported from 
> /home/rsyring/.virtualenvs/foo/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest.pyc
> setuptools registered plugins:
>   pytest-cov-1.8.1 at 
> /home/rsyring/.virtualenvs/foo/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest_cov.pyc
Also:
>
> AssertionError: b'Hello, World!' != 'Hello, World!' 

Notice the "b" prefix on the first string.  You are getting hung up by 
the fact that one is a byte-string and the other is a unicode string.  
In Python 2 this would have probably "just worked" but in Python 3 you 
have to be more careful.

HTH.

*Randy Syring*
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and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/

On 07/08/2015 11:33 PM, Paradox wrote:
> I am trying to learn TDD using the tutorial here:
>
> https://github.com/mjhea0/flaskr-tdd
>
> The only thing I have done differently from the tutorial is to use 
> pyvenv rather than virtualenv and to use py.test for my test runner.
>
> When I get to the point of running the first test (on returning the 
> "Hello, World!" page) the second time (after the app.py file is 
> created and filled) it still fails as follows:
>
> app-test.py:1: in <module>
>     from app import app
> app.py:1: in <module>
>     from flask import Flask
> E   ImportError: No module named 'flask'
>
> Running the flask app works fine, it starts the development server and 
> returns the proper page, there seems to be something wrong with the 
> test file or the test runner.
>
> Incidentally when I run the test without py.test it finds the module 
> but fails with an error in the returned string:
>
> AssertionError: b'Hello, World!' != 'Hello, World!'
>
> I haven't figured that one out yet either!
>
> Is there a reason py.test can't find the flask module in the pyvenv 
> created virtual environment?
>
> thomas
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