Test & Code

49: tox - Oliver Bestwalter


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tox is a simple yet powerful tool that is used by many Python projects.

tox is not just a tool to help you test a Python project against multiple versions of Python. In this interview, Oliver and Brian just scratch the surface of this simple yet powerful automation tool.

This is from the tox documentation:

tox is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for:

  • checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters
  • running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice
  • acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing.
  • Yet tox is so much more. It can help create development environments, hold all of your admin scripts, ...

    I hope you enjoy this wonderful discussion of tox with Oliver Bestwalter, one of the core maintainers of tox.

    Special Guest: Oliver Bestwalter.

    Links:

    • tox project documentation
    • tox recreate : "Have you turned it off and on again?" for tox
    • "Hello world" of tox
    • tox also has plugins
    • talk by Bernát Gábor about a tox based workflow at EuroPython 2018
    • adding a description to your environments
    • detox - distributed tox
    • devpi: private package index
    • PyCharm plugin to easily set the project interpreter via context menu: PyVenvmanage
    • power mode in atom
    • Power Mode for PyCharm
    ...more
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