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  1. pactree - package dependency tree viewer

     1$ pactree python-tox | rg 'python-'
     2
     3python-tox
     4├─python-cachetools
     5├─python-chardet
     6├─python-colorama
     7├─python-filelock
     8├─python-packaging
     9├─python-platformdirs
    10├─python-pluggy
    11├─python-pyproject-api
    12│ └─python-packaging
    13└─python-virtualenv
    14  ├─python-distlib
    15  ├─python-filelock
    16  └─python-platformdirs
    
  2. Python's built-in unittest module is quite cool, but a bit limited and way too verbose (read: it's quite not easy to incite developers to write unit tests)

    I'm currently looking for more dev-friendly solutions, the key points being:

    • writing test code should be easy and straight-forward -keep the focus on "what to test" instead of "how to transcribe a process to a test"
    • parallelization! -we, spoiled developers, should make good use of our way-too-many-cores build machines...
    • complete feature set!
      • we don't want to just run tests...
      • coverage reports (find dead/weak/untested code sections)
      • output formatting (JUnit-XML seems to be quite a common format out there)

    There seem to be 3 solutions in Python:

    • stock unittest + project-dependent customizations / test helpers
    • nosetests
    • py.test

    And 2 ways of gettings things done:

    • keeping things stock: no external dependency, project-specific implementation...
    • using a test framework: one more module in your (test) virtualenv, more concise tests, more features (// run, code coverage, etc.)

    Some links:

  3.  1# setup a transifex virtualenv
     2virtualenv2 VENV; source VENV/bin/activate; pip install transifex-client
     3
     4# global config: ~/.transifexrc
     5# this step can be omitted, as 'tx init' will create the file if it doesn't exist
     6[https://www.transifex.com]
     7username = User
     8token =
     9password = un54f3_p4ssw0rd!
    10hostname = https://www.transifex.com
    11
    12# setup example project
    13mkdir example; cd example
    14tx init
    15tx set --auto-remote https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/my-project/
    16
    17# get the files
    18tx pull -l pt_BR
    19
    20# edit things
    21poedit / linguist-qt4
    22
    23# push to transifex
    24tx push -t