Reducing duplication with pytest fixtures

In this post I will demostrate how to use pytest fixtures to access the expected responses to several unit tests with the goal of reducing code duplication. I have used VS Code to build and run these tests. If you need help setting up VS Code to run pytest take a look at this earlier […]

Python Unit Testing with VS Code

This post explains how to set up VS Code to run Python unit tests Install the Python extension If you have not done so already install the Microsoft Python extension for VS Code Configuration Python unit testing is turned off by default. To turn it on, bring up the VS Code Command pallet, on Windows, […]

An introduction to Web scraping using Python 3

In this article I will demonstrate how easy it is to perform basic text Web scraping using Python and just a few lines of code. The example have been developed and tested using Python  3.5.2. The first step is to see if you have the following third party libraries already installed; Requests and Beautiful Soup […]