PYTHON BASE

My base repo for python development with a focus on continuous TDD.

Development

Requirements

• python 3.6.4
• pipenv

Setup Instructions

Follow the below instructions to prepare your development environment. Once you are finished, run the tests to verify your setup.

Python 3.6

If you need to install Python 3.6, execute the following:

sudo apt install -yq build-essential checkinstall git
sudo apt install -yq libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tar.xz
tar xf Python-3.6.0.tar.xz
cd Python-3.6.0/
./configure
sudo make altinstall

The above will install an executable named python3.6 in a system directoy. Test that your installation was successful by running:

python3.6 --version

Pipenv

This project depends on pipenv to manage python dependencies. To install pipenv and initialize the dev environment, execute:

python3.6 -m pip install pipenv
pipenv install --python 3.6

Ensure that your pipenv is properly initialized by running:

pipenv run python --version

You should see output similar to the output from python3.6 --version, indicating that the version of python the virtual environment is using is at least Python 3.6.

Running the tests

Run the tests by executing the following command

./bin/tests

I practice continuous testing. As such, I have the tests run every time a python file changes on disk. To run the test suite continuously run the command

./bin/continuous_tests

This depends on the presence of the utility entr being present. If it is not found, the tests will be run a single time and exit.