On 2013-09-13 12:33, holger krekel wrote:
Hi all,
this was discussed before on IRC, but here is an update and a question.
currently pytest-trunk implements a convenient new monkeypatch.replace
method:
# example usage
monkeypatch.replace("os.path.abspath", lambda x: "/abc")
This effectively performs:
import os.path
monkeypatch.setattr(os.path, "abspath", lambda x: "/abc")
However, i just wanted to use it and couldn't remember the "replace"
name and don't find it very telling anymore. I often do something
like this::
monkeypatch.setattr("os.path.abspath", lambda x: "/abc")
As long as the old 3 parameter setattr is not going to be away, that
seems fine.
Depending on the length of the string I would probably still use the 3
parameter version to get the <TAB> completion on the first argument.
Unfortunately just writing
monkeypatch.setattr(os.path.abspath, lambda x: "/abc")
in Python to get the same effect is out of the question AFAIK. Maybe I
should try and make an/my editor smart enough to handle strings that are
actually object-attribute-hierarchy references and do TAB completion on
those.
which currently ends up as an error. Would it be too awkward to
just make the latter work and forget about introducing a new "replace"
method name? IMO it's rather intuitive to just make setattr accept
the new signature, although the docstring will need a bit of explaining.
cheers,
holger
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