Modern-Python-Cookbook-Second-Edition, published by Packt
Install either Miniconda or Anaconda.
Create the book's environment.
conda create -n cookbook python=3.8
Note that python 3.8 is required. A few of the examples will not work with Python 3.7.
Activate the environment.
conda activate cookbook
Install the required components. This will download and install all of the packages listed in the
requirements.txt
file.python -m pip install --requirement requirements.txt
Run the tox tool to test all of the modules.
tox
No Internet.
tox
(ortox -e py38,network
) will run all tests.tox -e py38
will run the subset of tests that do not need an internet connection.
Windows.
The Chapter_05 examples make OS requests that work for Darwin and Linux, but are not designed to work for Windows. In this chapter's examples, also, you might need to use
#doctest: +SKIP
to skip over tests that are not relevant for your specific OS.To run the Chapter 12 tests that require the proper SSL setup.
tox -e ssl
To run a specific example as a main program, be sure to set the PYTHONPATH
environment variable.
PYTHONPATH=. python Chapter_13/ch13_r06.py data/ch13*.yaml
To run a number of main program demos, use the following tox environment
tox -e main