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Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests

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On 10Oct2013 07:00, Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> wrote:
> (explaining the title) : my app has functions and methods (and
> maybe classes in the future) that are decorated by decorators
> provided by the standard library or 3rd party packages.
> 
> But I need to test "undecorated" functions and methods in my unit tests, preferably without adding "special stuffs" in my target tested modules.
> 
> Can someone point out good practices or dedicated tools that "remove temporarily" the decorations.
> I pasted a small example of what I heed at http://pastebin.com/20CmHQ7Y

Speaking for myself, I would be include to recast this code:

  @absolutize
  def addition(a, b):
      return a + b

into:

  def _addition(a, b):
      return a + b

  addition = absolutize(_addition)

Then you can unit test both _addition() and addition().

And so forth.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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Skipping decorators in unit tests Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2013-10-10 07:00 -0700
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-11 09:12 +1100
    Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-11 02:55 +0000
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-11 14:13 +1100
        Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-11 04:36 +0000
          Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:23 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-11 14:42 +1100
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:17 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:25 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:32 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-11 10:51 -0700
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-10 19:44 -0400
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-10 21:12 -0400
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 02:37 -0700
    Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-12 08:38 +1100

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