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Sometimes you just want to know about your dependencies, and their dependencies.

If you are a maintainer of a Python package, it’s nice if you pay attention to the time it takes to import your package.

There’s a proposal, PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports for Python to natively support lazy importing starting in Python 3.15.

The easiest way to install Python 3.14 (or 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.10, …) I originally wrote this post in 2022 for Python 3.11.

Python 3.14 is here.

There’s a new release of pytest-check.

There are a lot of events in the history of software development.

Like the recent archival of Test and Code, the Python People podcast has also moved.

I really appreciate all of the positive feedback I’ve gotten when I announced that I was stopping the Test & Code podcast.

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Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud.

In 2013/2014 I wrote a 4 part series on pytest fixtures.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players In this episode, host Brian Okken and guest Adam Johnson explore essential Git features, highlighted by Adam's updated book, "Boost Your Git DX."

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players In this episode, special guest Adam Johnson joins the show and examines pytest-django, a popular plugin among Django developers.

I’m doing some blog cleanup.

Brett Cannon recently released a great article explaining how Python 3.14’s new t-strings work.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-metadata is described as a plugin for pytest that provides access to test session metadata.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-check is a pytest plugin that allows multiple failures per test.

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Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-repeat is a pytest plugin that makes it easy to repeat a single test, or multiple tests, a specific number of times. works fine on Python 3.14 is tested on Python 3.9-3.14 probably works

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-repeat is a pytest plugin that makes it easy to repeat a single test, or multiple tests, a specific number of times.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-html has got to be one of my all time favorite plugins. pytest-html is a plugin for pytest that generates a HTML report for test results.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players Markdown reports as either text or markdown tables.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players This episode is a replay of a 2021 interview I did with Michael Foord.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-mock is currently the #3 pytest plugin. pytest-mock is a wrapper around unittest.mock.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players pytest-cov is a pytest plugin that helps produce coverage reports using Coverage.py.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players This episode kicks off a series on pytest plugins.

I noticed a fun post by Ned Batchelder called Testing some tidbits.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players Taking notes well can help to listen better, remember things, show respect, be more accountable, free up mind space to solve problems.

If you’re looking for a great place to learn pytest, I recommend the course or book below.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players In this episode we're talking about importing part of a package into another part of the same package.

This is intended to find the most popular (as determined by download count) pytest plugins, as plugins usually have “pytest” in the name.

What are the top downloaded pytest plugins?

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players We've got some code we want to test, and some tests.

This is a really fun talk with Shauna.

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PyCon US is just around the corner.

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Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when deciding which tests to write and how much testing is enough.

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Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.

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Nikita Karamov is a Python developer and maintainer on various open source Python projects.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players If you haven't tried running automated tests, especially with pytest, in VS Code recently, you should take another look.

pytest 8.0.0 was released on 17-Jan-2024, and I’m pretty excited about it.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players If a test fails in a test suite, I'm going to want to re-run the test.

Pamela Fox is a Python Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft.

Test and Code Episode Archive XML feed URL for podcast players In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called "Test Driven Development by Example".

Julian Sequeira is a cofounder of Pybites.