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Building RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from  Building RESTful Python Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462251
Pages 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 3. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django 4. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Flask 6. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 7. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask 8. Testing and Deploying an API with Flask 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 10. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 11. Exercise Answers

Setting up unit tests


We will use nose2 to make it easier to discover and run unit tests. We will measure test coverage, and therefore, we will install the necessary package to allow us to run coverage with nose2. First, we will install the nose2 and cov-core packages in our virtual environment. The cov-core package will allow us to measure test coverage with nose2.

Make sure you quit the Tornado's HTTP server. Remember that you just need to press Ctrl + C in the Terminal or command-prompt window in which it is running. We just need to run the following command to install the nose2 package that will also install the six dependency:

pip install nose2

The last lines for the output will indicate that the nose2 package has been successfully installed:

    
    Collecting nose2
    Collecting six>=1.1 (from nose2)
      Downloading six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
    Installing collected packages: six, nose2
    Successfully installed nose2-0.6.5 six-1.10.0

We just need to run the following...

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