Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Development Tools

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Debugging—how to leverage the Python built-in debugger
• Testing—writing test suites with the Python standard library test framework
• Mocking—patching objects to simulate fake behaviors in tests
• Reporting errors in production—getting crashes reported by email
• Benchmarking—how to benchmark functions with the standard library
• Inspection—inspecting the type, attributes, and methods provided by an object
• Code evaluation—running Python code within Python code
• Tracing—how to trace which lines of code were executed
• Profiling—how to trace bottlenecks in code