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Testing with PyTest

In fact, poetry even generates a test function for us, though it doesn't test our code; instead, it checks the version. Take a look at the code here:

from wikiwwii import __version__def test_version():    assert __version__ == '0.1.0'

Here, two things are worth discussing. First, as you can see, the test is just a function with the word "test" in its name. Having this word is necessary—this is the way pytest finds all the tests. Second, each test results in one or a few assert statements. To pass the test, assert should not raise any issues. That's all the basics of test development. 

Now let's run this existing test; generally speaking, all we need is to type pytest tests on the command line. With poetry, however, we have ...