How well does this handle aware (non-naive) datetimes?
FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
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Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#12I don't really have much experience in datetimes I guess. What is this really good for? Can someone provide some use cases where this library might be helpful?
Thanks
Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#13Quick question: why did you need to write FreezeGun?
I've always used Mock http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ to patch datetimes and I've never had any problems.
You can patch pretty much anything with Mock.
Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#14Quick question: why did you need to write FreezeGun?
I've always used Mock http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ to patch datetimes and I've never had any problems.
You can patch pretty much anything with Mock.
Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#15I don't really have much experience in datetimes I guess. What is this really good for? Can someone provide some use cases where this library might be helpful? Thanks
Mainly for testing
Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#16nice project. I usually avoid this by making my APIs accept a datetime objects and make the client code create the datetime object. Pure functions make tests simple.
That's what I've been doing, but not because I believe it to be a better way, but because I'm to lazy to implement my own FreezeGun. I don't think the production code should contain unnecessary complexity that is only used for testing.
Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#17What about those of us who prefer the simpler time module (which works mostly in epoch time)? It would be a simple change to extend FreezeGun to cover that module in a similar way, surely?
Re: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes
#18Rubyists desiring similar functionality should check out either of the following libs. As far as I can tell they differ only in their pun selection. https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop https://github.com/bebanjo/delorean In the ruby community, disliking someone's choice of science fiction reference is grounds for a rewrite.
So I need to write one called "tardis"?