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Testing PodcastPython Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael Foord
Show notes: Python Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael Foord
2025-02-1000 min
Testing PodcastPython Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael Foord
Show notes: Python Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael Foord
2025-02-1047 min
Talk of the WeekPython Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael FoordShow notes: Python Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael Foord2025-02-1047 min
Test & CodeMocking in Python with unittest.mock - Michael FoordThis episode is a replay of a 2021 interview I did with Michael Foord.We lost Michael in January, and I'd like to revisit this interview as a tribute. Michael Foord was a pivotal figure in the Python community and the creator of the mock library that's now unittest.mock. But he did so much more as well. His contributions continue to resonate within the developer community. This interview is just a small peek at his influence. In this episodeIntroduction to Michael FoordThe Mock Library OriginsMocking and Testing PhilosophyCareer Path and C...2025-02-0747 minTest & Codepytest-mock : Mocking in pytestpytest-mock is currently the #3 pytest plugin. pytest-mock is a wrapper around unittest.mock.In this episode:Why the pytest-mock plugin is awesomeWhat is mocking, patching, and monkey patchingWhat, if any, is the difference between mock, fake, spy, stub. Why we might need these in testingSome history of mock in Python and how mock became unittest.mockFrom unittest.mockpatch.objectpatch.object with autospecusing these as context managerspytest-mock:The mocker fixture Cleanup in teardownUsing mocker.patch, mocker.spy, and mocker.stubWhy it's awesome and why you might want to use it over straight unittest.mockLinks:t...2025-01-3111 min
Python Bytes#418: I'm a tea potTopics covered in this episode:
In memoriam: Michael Foord 1974-2025
Valkey (Redis Replacement)
30 best practices for software development and testing
mimetype.io
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/4182025-01-2720 min
The Pragmatic InvestorE40 w/Michael Howell: Liquidity Outlook For 2025My guest today is Michael Howell , the author of Capital Wars. He understands Global Liquidity and its effects on markets better than anyone I know, and I got the chance to pick his brains for an hour in this conversation.Expect to learn:* How Trump’s presidency will affect markets in 2025* The outlook for liquidity * Risks to global liquidity as debt refinancing comes due* Best assets to hold short and long-termCheck out Michael’s work:https://substack.com/@capitalwarshttps://www.crossbordercapital.com...2024-11-2757 min
The Pragmatic InvestorE38 w/Michael Howell: Liquidity Says It AllInvestment Grade Analysis 20% Discounthttps://www.seekingalpha.link/34TNL7J/2QZRGT/My guest today is Michael Howell, the author of Capital Wars.He understands Global Liquidity and its effects on markets better than anyone I know, and I got the chance to pick his brains for an hour in this conversation.Not only did we discuss liquidity, but also the dollar system, Bitcoin, the outlook for the rest of 2024 and much more.Check out Michael’s work:https://substack.com/@capitalwarshttps://www.crossbordercapital.com/...2024-07-0958 min
Drummers on DrummingBig Fat Five: Steve Durham's (Louis Tomlinson / Drummer / Musical Director) Top 5 Influential RecordsThis week's guest is Steve Durham. Steve is a Drummer, Musical Director and Producer from London, UK. He began playing drums at 8 years old and was out on the road by the time he was 14. Since then he's worked with Louis Tomlinson (One Direction), Dermot Kennedy, Wolf Alice, Foals, Holly Humberstone, Aurora, Declan Mckenna, Marina and the Diamonds and more. I hope you enjoy the 5 records plus a few honorable mentions that helped shape Steve Durham into the drummer he is today. Cheers!---Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today!...2024-05-0848 min
The Pragmatic InvestorE18 w/Michael Wiggins: Tech Earnings, Recession, Inflation and GasIn this conversation with Michael, we talked about the recent tech earnings, going deep into the Alphabet (GOOGL) and SoFi (SOFI) results.As ad spending recovers, could this mean there will not be a recession?On the other hand, could SoFi be a good investment as it shows signs of profitability?Finally, what's going on with oil? We've seen a great rally in the last month, but Michael and I still see a much better future for gas.Follow Michael: https://seekingalpha.com/author/michael-wiggins-de-oliveirahttps://twitter.com/MichaelWigginsO2023-08-0344 min
The Pragmatic InvestorE13 w/Michael Wiggins: Exploring the three DsToday I had the pleasure of speaking with Michael Wiggins, back again for round 2 of our energy discussion. Michael went in-depth into explaining the three driving forces behind the higher price of energy thesis; Deglobalization, Digitalization and Decarbonization. We talked about the outlook for natural gas, nuclear energy and many other commodities.As always, it was a real pleasure to have Michael on the show. Don't forget to check out his work.Follow Michael: https://seekingalpha.com/author/michael-wiggins-de-oliveirahttps://twitter.com/MichaelWigginsOFollow me:https://jamesfoord.substack.com/https://seekingalpha.com...2023-06-2843 min
The Pragmatic InvestorE6 w/Michael Wiggins: What's the future of energy?Welcome to E6 of the Pragmatic Investor!Today I was joined by Michael Wiggins, author of Deep Value Returns on Seeking Alpha. He is an expert on energy, commodities and tech stocks.Today we talked about what the best sources of energy are for the coming decade, how to best profit from the coming dynamics in energy markets, what the best stocks are to own in natural gas and also Michael's thoughts on Airbnb, which recently reported earnings.I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you will too.Follow Michael...2023-05-1833 min
Investing by the Books#25 Richard Lawrence: The ModelRichard Lawrence is the founder of Overlook Investments and one of the best investors in Asian equities over the last three decades. Richard founded Overlook Investments in Hong Kong in 1991 and the fund has since then beat the market by 6.5 percentage points per year. At the time of recording, June 10th, 2022, Overlook held more than USD 6 billion in assets.—————————————We discuss Richard's book "The Model", with his best lessons from bear markets, Overlook's successful investment philosophy, his thoughts on investing in China, and the art of selling. A must-listen for every fund manager and private investor aimin...2022-06-281h 13
Full Time Europe: A show about women's footballSpicy title showdown and Caitlin FoordOL Reign and Wales' Jess Fishlock and former Chelsea and Lionesses defender Claire Rafferty join Kait Borsay to take you through all the weekend’s WSL action featuring the Chelsea v Arsenal title decider. We talk tactics with The Athletic’s Michael Cox, laugh at Leah Williamson's guilty face after handball claims...Plus an exclusive interview with Arsenal and Australia's Caitlin Foord.And to top it all off we assess England's chances in the upcoming Arnold Clark Cup.RUNNING ORDER PART 1 - Moments of the WSL with NOW! (4.30)PART...2022-02-1555 min
Growing The Game with BallsyEpisode 322 - Jon Ryan, Mitchell Picton, John Foord & Mark McConkey1st QTR
Podcast sponsor and local football hero Jon Ryan talks about his disappointment over not being re-signed by his hometown Roughriders.
2nd QTR
Former Leboldus Golden Suns and Regina Rams star Mitchell Picton gets the chance to continue his boyhood dream after re-upping with the Saskatchewan Roughriders
3rd QTR
Speaking of the Golden Suns, long-time Head Coach John Foord is stepping down and he talks to Ballsy about some of things he's most proud of.
4th QTR
After an ex...2022-02-1137 min
Growing The Game with BallsyEpisode 317 - Sam Baker, Kyle Borsa, Isaac Foord, Clayton Kroeker and Manny Arceneaux1ST QTR 1:33
The U of S Huskies have clinched first in the Can West for the first time in 11 seasons. Ballsy talks with their slotback Sam Baker about that, his rocket armed QB Mason Nyhus and how much home field advantage will help in the playoffs!
2ND QTR 16:23
Ballsy catches up with Regina Rams running back Kyle Borsa to discuss the team's devastating season and the fact that he is probably playing in his final U-Sports football game!
3RD QTR 30:00
The 8-0 Regina Thunder open the playoffs this weekend a...2021-11-0550 minTest & Code145: For Those About to Mock - Michael FoordA discussion about mocking in Python with the original contributor of unittest.mock, Michael Foord.Of course we discuss mocking and unittest.mock. We also discuss:testing philosophyunit testing and what a unit isTDDwhere Michael's towel is, and what colorMicheal was instrumental in the building of testing tools for Python, and continues to be a pragmatic source of honest testing philosopy in a field that has a lot of contradictory information.Links:unittest.mock - Python docsMocks Aren't Stubs - Martin Fowlerpytest-mockmock.patchAutospeccingArrange Act Asserttesting-in-python mailing l...2021-02-1848 min
4000 And CountingEP 100Recorded live, raw and unedited, Episode 100 featuring;Ryan Watt, Zach Sullivan, Michael Wales, Mark Williams, Jordan Lawday, Stephen Wall, Terry Miles, Matt Foord, Danny Meyers, Ben O'Connor. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review.Support the show2021-02-173h 084000 And CountingEP 100Recorded live, raw and unedited, Episode 100 featuring;Ryan Watt, Zach Sullivan, Michael Wales, Mark Williams, Jordan Lawday, Stephen Wall, Terry Miles, Matt Foord, Danny Meyers, Ben O'Connor. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review.Support the show2021-02-173h 08
Growing The Game with BallsyEpisode 253The Coach of the Week for Pizza Huts in Saskatchewan is John Foord of Dr. Martin Leboldus High School. GROWING THE GAME WITH BALLSY is also brought to you by Face First Medical Aesthetics, Riviere Ag Seeds in Radville, Sask Selects Football, Double Z Ag Sales in Weyburn, Paul Woldu Royal LePage/Regina and Mark Greschner Photography. GROWING THE GAME WITH BALLSY: Where The Season Never Ends....
2021-02-1512 min
The PPC Burrito Podcast007: Rachel Foord from Verve Creative SolutionsOn this episode of PPC Burrito Becky and Michael talk about Bing advertising's exciting new partnership. Also joining is Rachel Foord from Verve Creative Solutions who shares tips for growing small businesses, as well as her own marketing adventure...2020-07-231h 06
Mid Meet PyMidMeetPy Ep4 - Interview with Michael FoordPyChat (news in the community):
Farewell to Oier Echaniz
Pyladies Dub meetup 19th May
Python in Astronomy hackdays kick off at midnight tonight BST (23rd & 24th) April - all welcome!
New Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging
Ticket sales for EuroPython 2020 Online have started
Meet Hall of Fame:
Interview with Michael Foord, Python Core Developer, creator of Iron Python and Mock module
Follow Michael on Twitter
...2020-05-1155 min
Podcast proConf#60 PyConBY 2020 - Борода в гостях | Питон 2 уже все | Кому нужны дата сатанисты в 2020Блог Олега: http://olegivye.com/
Таймкоды:
14:00 - Ronan Lamy - Pythonic doesn't mean slow! (https://youtu.be/jK9LrcLv6bQ)
23:00 - Andrew Godwin - The long road to asynchrony (https://youtu.be/UlduqhmtUKY)
40:10 - Michael Foord - How Python Took Over the World (https://youtu.be/EFJzsKvi8lU)
54:40 - Lightning talk: Nikolay Saskovets - Python 2: What is dead may never die (RU) (https://youtu.be/riLf7nECQL0)
58:25 - Lightning talk: Aliaksei Urbanski - Dependencies management tools (RU) (https://youtu.be/3pdxgucgUs8)
01:02:15 - Lena Volzhina - Building hyperlocal weather forecast with machine learning techniques (https://youtu.be/NMm-NXubdnA)
01:13:30 - Boris Tsema - 10k rps on a mediocre VM...2020-05-011h 44
Harmonic SessionsHarmonic Sessions 001Harmonic Sessions 001
Presented by Matthew Foord
Broadcast 2018 / 09 / 06
mixlr.com/dusk-dubs
Tracklisting
Guest Mix by Paul Hughes
"Music for beaches, boats and basements !!!"
Sordid Sound System - Die Ewige Nacht
Pye Audio Corner - Resist
Michael Mayer & Andrew Thomas - Cicadellia
john Talabot - The Strange Silence
Jimpster - Becoming Cyclonic
Dust Yard - Prana
Asimin Asanof - Synchronized
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Martin Iveson - Leave Me Here (Jimpster Remix)
Hiroshi Watanabe - Infinity Sign
duskdubs.com2018-09-072h 51
The Python Podcast.__init__Michael Foord On Testing, Mock, TDD, And The Python CommunitySummary
Michael Foord has been working on building and testing software in Python for over a decade. One of his most notable and widely used contributions to the community is the Mock library, which has been incorporated into the standard library. In this episode he explains how he got involved in the community, why testing has been such a strong focus throughout his career, the uses and hazards of mocked objects, and how he is transitioning to freelancing full time.
Preface
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people...2018-07-2355 min
The Mane Land PawedCastPawedCast Episode 68: Tom Sermanni Interview, Montreal Review & Union PreviewAfter a week off due to technical difficulties that were somehow not related in any way to Hurricane Matthew, the PawedCast is back -- and with a special treat. Joining us this week is Orlando Pride Head Coach Tom Sermanni for an exclusive interview. Tom is always a great guest and he talked with us about many topics, including the team's overall first NWSL season, what tweaks need to be made in the off-season, the club's attempts to acquire Caitlin Foord, Ashlyn Harris, Alex Morgan and more. You won't want to miss it.
Before that, however, we attend to a...2016-10-1449 min
LococastPycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Michael Foord, Canonical, IronPython, and Python Mocking
IronPython in Action
Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Michael Foord, Canonical, OS Split Personality, and Mocking
In our last in the series of interview from PyCon 2011, Lococast sits down with Michael Foord and talk about some of the cool things he's working on at Canonical, how the new version of his Python mocking library Mock is doing, and a little bit about what's going on with IronPython in a post-Microsoft sanctioned project era.
Music
A Thousand Nails by Aathma from The Call of Shivà
The End Of The Snake by Aathma from The Call of Shivà
2011-03-2100 min
Hanselminutes with Scott HanselmanIronPython with Michael FoordMichael Foord makes his living as a Python programmer. More specifically has an IronPython programmer. He chats with Scott about his company's use of IronPython, the DLR and why they picked Python over C# or VB.
2009-04-2446 min