mock
The Python mock library (by testing-cabal)
time-machine
Travel through time in your tests. (by adamchainz)
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| mock | time-machine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 530 | 603 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 5.6 | 8.6 | |
| 9 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mock
Posts with mentions or reviews of mock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.
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mock VS pytest-fastapi-deps - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 23 May 2022
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.
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About time: how to unit test code that depends on time
Freezegun is pretty much unmaintained. You want time-machine https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine
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Running C unit tests with pytest
There are lots of good mocking fixtures available for pytest. I've used this one for clock stuff in the past: https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine#pytest-plugin
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mock and time-machine you can also consider the following projects:
VCR.py - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing
freezegun - Let your Python tests travel through time
Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
doublex
betamax - A VCR imitation designed only for python-requests.
responses - A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.
httmock - A mocking library for requests
httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module