freezegun VS time-machine

Compare freezegun vs time-machine and see what are their differences.

freezegun

Let your Python tests travel through time (by spulec)

time-machine

Travel through time in your tests. (by adamchainz)
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freezegun time-machine
9 2
3,952 594
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6.7 8.6
7 days ago 2 days ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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freezegun

Posts with mentions or reviews of freezegun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.

time-machine

Posts with mentions or reviews of time-machine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing freezegun and time-machine you can also consider the following projects:

python-libfaketime - A fast time mocking alternative to freezegun that wraps libfaketime.

Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.

VCR.py - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing

httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module

mock - The Python mock library

doublex

responses - A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.

Mock Generator - A tool to auto generate the basic mocks and asserts for faster unit testing

cornell - Cornell - record & replay mock server

betamax - A VCR imitation designed only for python-requests.