autopep8 VS pytest

Compare autopep8 vs pytest and see what are their differences.

autopep8

A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide. (by hhatto)

pytest

The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing (by pytest-dev)
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autopep8 pytest
18 30
4,517 11,349
- 1.8%
8.0 9.8
about 1 month ago 5 days ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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autopep8

Posts with mentions or reviews of autopep8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

pytest

Posts with mentions or reviews of pytest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-31.
  • Integrating Lab Equipment into pytest-Based Tests
    1 project | /r/Python | 4 Oct 2023
    In this blog post I want to demonstrate how my lab equipment such as a lab power supply or a digital multimeter (DMM) have been integrated into some pytest-based tests. Would love to get your feedback and thoughts! 🚀
  • The Uncreative Software Engineer's Compendium to Testing
    7 projects | dev.to | 31 Jul 2023
    Pytest: is a third-party testing framework that supports fixtures, parameterized testing, and easy test discovery while having room to add plugins to extend its functionality.
  • pytest VS vedro - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 16 Jul 2023
  • TDD vs BDD - A Detailed Guide
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2023
    Next, you need to install a testing framework that will be used for performing unit testing in your project. Several testing frameworks are available depending on the programming language used to create an application. For example, JUnit is commonly used for Java apps, pytest for Python apps, NUnit for .NET apps, Jest for JavaScript apps, and so on. We’ll use the Jest framework for this tutorial since we are using JavaScript.
  • Is there a way to automate testing in python? In my case :
    2 projects | /r/pythontips | 31 May 2023
    Yea, read through the pytest docs.
  • Testing an automation framework
    2 projects | /r/softwaretesting | 16 May 2023
  • Pytest Tips and Tricks
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2023
    I absolutely agree about fixtures-as-arguments thing. Ward does this a lot better, using default values for the fixture factory. There's a long issue on ideas to implement something like that as a pytest plugin (https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3834), but it seems the resulting plugin relies on something of a hack.
  • 2023 Development Tool Map
    20 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2023
  • Is my merge sort right?
    1 project | /r/algorithms | 5 Feb 2023
    I recommend writing a few tests. py.test makes that quite simple:
  • How to raise the quality of scientific Jupyter notebooks
    9 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    Since ITK's inception in 1999, there has been a focus on engineering practices that result in high-quality software. High-quality scientific software is driven by regression testing. The ITK project supported the development of CTest and CDash unit testing and software quality dashboard tools for use with the CMake build system. In the Python programming language, the pytest test driver helps developers write small, readable scripts that ensure their software will continue to work as expected. However, pytest can only test Python scripts by default, and errors in untested computational notebooks are more common than well-tested Python code.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing autopep8 and pytest you can also consider the following projects:

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

nose2 - The successor to nose, based on unittest2

Flake8 - flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

Robot Framework - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA

Pylint - It's not just a linter that annoys you!

Behave - BDD, Python style.

autoflake - Removes unused imports and unused variables as reported by pyflakes

Slash - The Slash testing infrastructure

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black]

hypothesis - Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.

pycodestyle - Simple Python style checker in one Python file

nose - nose is nicer testing for python