Developing for Development
What's it like being a developer at Aptivate? I've been a developer at Aptivate for 10 years, and volunteered part-time in my evenings and weekends for 3 years before...
Entries tagged "Python"
Sprinting at EuroPython 2014
A phenomenal two days of sprinting just wrapped up two back-to-back conferences in Berlin.
Overriding django signals in your test suite
After adding a postsave signal to a model, our test suite runtime increased 5-fold! I found two ways to fix this: one in factory_boy, one in pytest.
Unit Testing Django with Haystack and Solr
Django together with Haystack adds a powerful free-text search capability to your applications, and is widely used. This article explains how to write safe, reliable, repeatable tests for the search features, and avoid a common gotcha with indexing objects that shouldn't be indexed.
Temporary monkey patches in Python tests
Did some refactoring on the Intranet Binder monkeypatch library to enable temporary patches using Python's context objects. This is particularly nice for use in unit tests, where you might need to mock or stub out a component's dependencies, but you don't want those changes to be visible after your test finishes, or you only want them active for part of the test.
Django QuerySet silently allows querying with objects of wrong class
Django's database query builder doesn't detect if you query a relation using an object of the wrong type, but silently returns wrong results. A new monkey patch catches this programmer error and reports it.
Problem changing primary keys with South in Django
New features in enhanced Django TestCase
For about a year I've been working on our Django Binder app. It was originally designed for use in intranet applications, but much of the code is useful in Django apps of all kinds.
I've just committed a bunch of improvements from my work on the iSchool project, which I'd like to highlight to anyone interested, partly as internal documentation.
Django Dynamic Fixtures with unusual primary keys
Fixed a bug in Django Dynamic Fixtures where you have a model whose primary key is not called id. Merged same day, thanks Paulo Cheque.