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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing our mixin class

One additional challenge we haven't approached yet is testing our mixin class. Unlike our other widget classes, our mixin cannot really exist on its own: it depends on methods and properties found in the ttk widget which it's combined with.

One approach to testing this class would be to mix it with a Mock object which mocks out any inherited methods. This approach has merit, but a simpler (if less ideal) approach is to subclass it with the simplest possible ttk widget and test the resulting child class.

That approach looks like this:

class TestValidatedMixin(TkTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        class TestClass(widgets.ValidatedMixin, ttk.Entry):
            pass
        self.vw1 = TestClass(self.root)

Here, we've created just a basic child class ...

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