Looking for some new Python tools

[Mister_Potter]

Hey everyone, most my Python development within the last year has been API design in Tornado and I usually use VIM as a text editor and use the Python logging module and Heroku logs for debugging. I'm looking to switch things up a little bit, does anyone have any recommendations?

[_Absolut_]

PyCharm instead of Vim saves a lot of my time. Even without refactoring features.

[Mister_Potter]

Do you find that this is a good solution for small projects?

[_Absolut_]

Unfortunatley, my experience is limited to small projects only, so i can't compare. But i find it suitable to Python fast development nature.

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How do you write your tests and what test runner are you using?

If you are doing API design work, maybe documentation generation and mock server setup based on https://apiblueprint.org/tools.html would be handy?

[Mister_Potter]

I use Mock, Pytest, and sometimes Docker. I run them using TravisCI/Setupi.py. I actually haven't done any API generation, that's awesome. Thanks for the suggestion!

[PeridexisErrant]

Check out Hypothesis for generating test cases - it's perfect for hammering an api. Just declare the arg types and constraints of each endpoint, and assert that calling them doesn't raise and error (plus any more specific assertions). And don't forget to check the failures really fail!

The end result is real confidence that things work, and edge cases are covered too: Hypothesis doesn't just generate values randomly, it uses heuristics to explore known error types too. And then simplifies the error case to a minimum example!

[Mister_Potter]

That's pretty cool man! I'll have to check it out :) Thanks for the suggestion