# python

• Testing with pendulum

  My usual way of modifying the behaviour of pendulum.now() when testing has been to mock it:

  with mock.patch(
      "pendulum.now", return_value=pendulum.parse("2020-01-01 00:00:00")
  ):
    ...
  

  However, I did something mad today, and delved into the docs and found a neater way:

  with pendulum.test(pendulum.parse("2020-01-01 00:00:00")):
  

• HTTPretty test hanging on Travis

  nosetests that use HTTPretty don’t exit cleanly on Travis CI. An answer on Stack Overflow reveals the problem and a simple workaround.