Maciek Fijalkowski wrote: > Michael Hipp wrote: >> What's the best technique for this? >> >> My current project uses lots of timestamps ( i.e now(), today() ) but >> this causes lots of things to return different results with every run. >> So for the cases where the module under test needs to return results >> that are binary repeatable with every run, I want to centralize all my >> calls to the above functions in one place and have them return a >> predetermined value when under test. >> >> So how best to communicate to a module that it is under test and a few >> certain things need to modify their behavior slightly? >> >> Just looking for "best practices" here. > I would go for > > import foo > > def setup_module(mod): > try: > old_now = foo.now > foo.now = a_day > .... > finally: > foo.now = old_now
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