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Python strings formatting

Obvious, but: you can declare strings and format them in separate places!

constants.py:

my_string = "Hello my name is {0}"

other_file.py:

from constants import my_string
print(my_string.format("Serhii"))

Pycharm run current unittest binding

<C-S-F10> runs the unittest where the cursor is currently located. Or all of them if located anywhere else in the file.

TODO: set binding to do the same, but debugging.

python - run only some tests from a test suite

I wanted to run only some test files, all except the ones where I needed a GPU. Wrote this:

import subprocess

# Parts of filenames to exclude
large_tests = ['component', 'test_temp']

test_folder = Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
test_files = list(test_folder.glob("test_*.py"))
test_files = [x.name for x in test_files]

for l in large_tests:
  test_files = list(filter(lambda x: l not in x, test_files))

commands = ["python3", "-m", "unittest"] + test_files

subprocess.run(commands, cwd=test_folder)

Notes:

• Thought this would be a security nightmare, but it’s not¹ - unless shell=True is explicitly passed, no shell is called, ergo no shell-command-injection stuff is possible.
• os.chdir() is nicely replaced by the cwd= parameter, much nicer than what I’d have done previously!