black VS pytest

Compare black vs pytest and see what are their differences.

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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black pytest
322 30
37,348 11,349
1.2% 1.8%
9.4 9.8
6 days ago 4 days ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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black

Posts with mentions or reviews of black. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.
  • How to setup Black and pre-commit in python for auto text-formatting on commit
    3 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2024
    $ git commit -m "add pre-commit configuration" [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... black................................................(no files to check)Skipped [main 6e21eab] add pre-commit configuration 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
  • Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
    16 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Black: Known as “The Uncompromising Code Formatter”, Black automatically formats your Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide. It takes away the hassle of having to manually adjust your code style.
  • Uv: Python Packaging in Rust
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
    black @ git+https://github.com/psf/black
  • Let's meet Black: Python Code Formatting
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2024
    In the realm of Python development, there is a multitude of code formatters that adhere to PEP 8 guidelines. Today, we will briefly discuss how to install and utilize black.
  • Show HN: Visualize the Entropy of a Codebase with a 3D Force-Directed Graph
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2024
    Perfect, that worked, thank you!

    I thought this could be solved by changing the directory to src/ and then executing that command, but this didn't work.

    This also seems to be an issue with the web app, e.g. the repository for the formatter black is only one white dot https://dep-tree-explorer.vercel.app/api?repo=https://github...

  • Introducing Flask-Muck: How To Build a Comprehensive Flask REST API in 5 Minutes
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2023
  • Embracing Modern Python for Web Development
    12 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2023
    Ruff is not only much faster, but it is also very convenient to have an all-in-one solution that replaces multiple other widely used tools: Flake8 (linter), isort (imports sorting), Black (code formatter), autoflake, many Flake8 plugins and more. And it has drop-in parity with these tools, so it is really straightforward to migrate from them to Ruff.
  • Auto-formater for Android (Kotlin)
    1 project | /r/androiddev | 5 Dec 2023
    What I am looking for is something like Black for Python, which is opinionated, with reasonable defaults, and auto-fixes most/all issues.
  • Releasing my Python Project
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Nov 2023
    1. LICENSE: This file contains information about the rights and permissions granted to users regarding the use, modification, distribution, and sharing of the software. I already had an MIT License in my project. 2. pyproject.toml: It is a configuration file typically used for specifying build requirements and backend build systems for Python projects. I was already using this file for Black code formatter configuration. 3. README.md: Used as a documentation file for your project, typically includes project overview, installation instructions and optionally, contribution instructions. 4. example_package_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE: One big change I had to face was restructuring my project, essentially packaging all files in this directory. The name of this directory should be what you want to name your package and shoud not conflict with any of the existing packages. Of course, since its a Python Package, it needs to have an __init__.py. 5. tests/: This is where you put all your unit and integration tests, I think its optional as not all projects will have tests. The rest of the project remains as is.
  • Lute v3 - installed software for learning foreign languages through reading
    2 projects | /r/flask | 15 Nov 2023
    using pylint and black ("the uncompromising code formatter")

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 black and pytest you can also consider the following projects:

autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.

nose2 - The successor to nose, based on unittest2

prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

Robot Framework - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA

yapf - A formatter for Python files

Behave - BDD, Python style.

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

Slash - The Slash testing infrastructure

ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

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

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.

nose - nose is nicer testing for python