Chapter 9: Testing matrix with Tox
Alfredo Deza
Tox is a project that comes from the same creators of the Pytest framework. Its first release was announced a few years ago by Holger Krekel. My first reaction was that I hoped the tool would create different Python installations. It was back when most Python software was developed for 2.5 and 2.6, while 2.7 was in the near horizon.
I didn’t understand why it was so useful and didn’t quite grasp what it was trying to solve. The language differences in the Python 2.x series wasn’t drastic, and Python 3 was not a reality. And then, one day, I was releasing a new version of a library I was maintaining and released it on the Python Package Index (PyPI): the library was uninstallable. As soon as someone ...
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