Python Test

Software tests should be order independent. That means you should be able to run them in any order or run them in isolation and get the same result.

However, system state often gets in the way and order dependence can creep into a test suite.
One way to fight against order dependence is to randomize test order, and with pytest, we recommend the plugin pytest-randomly to do that for you...

Many people have been working from home now that are not used to working from home.
Or at least are working from home more than they ever did before. That's definitely true for me.
Even though I've been working from home since March, I wanted some tips from people who have been doing it longer.

Julian Sequeira, of PyBites fame, has been working from home for about a year.
Reuven Lerner, an amazing Python trainer, has been working from home for much longer...

Researches and others using data science and software need to follow solid software engineering practices. This is a message that Joel Grus has been promoting for some time.

Joel joins the show this week to talk about data science, software engineering, and even Fizz Buzz...

pytest 6 is out. Specifically, 6.0.1, as of July 31.

And there's lots to be excited about.
Anthony Sottile joins the show to discuss features, improvements, documentation updates and more.

Full release notes / changelog

Some of what we talk about:

• How to update (at least, how I do it)
  • Run your test suites with 5.4.3 or whatever the last version you were using
  • Update to 6
  • Run again. Same output? Probably good...

pip is the package installer for Python.

Often, when you run pip, especially the first time in a new virtual environment, you will see something like:

WARNING: You are using pip version 20.1.1; however, version 20.2 is available.

You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

And you should. Because 20.2 has a new dependency resolver...

Lots of Python projects are starting to use GitHub Actions for Continous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD), as well as other workflows.

Tania Allard, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, joins the show to answer some of my questions regarding setting up a Python project to use Actions...

A great resume is key to landing a great software job.
There's no surprise there.
But so many people make mistakes on their resume that can very easily be fixed.

Randall Kanna is on the show today to help us understand how to improve our resumes, and in turn, help us have better careers.

Special Guest: Randall Kanna.

Sponsored By:

• PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for 4 months and learn how PyCharm will save you time...

Len Wanger works on industrial 3D printers. And I was pleased to find out that
there's a bunch of Python in those printers as well.

In this episode we talk about:

• 3D printers
• What are the different types of 3D printers?
• Where are 3D printed industrial parts being used?
• Why use one type of additive manufacturing over another?
• Python in 3D printing hardware...

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.
Typer is a library for building CLI applications, also based on Python type hints.
Type hints and many other details are intended to make it easier to develop, test, and debug applications using FastAPI and Typer.

The person behind FastAPI and Typer is Sebastián Ramírez...

There's stuff going on in Python packaging and pyproject.toml.

Brett and I talk about some upcoming work on Python packaging, such as:

• editable installs
• the need for standardization
• configuration of other tools in pyproject...