I started work on testing a Textual app as described on their Testing page.
It was necessary to install pytest-asyncio because the run_test method is an async context manager. I also installed the pytest-textual-snapshot plugin for pytest which provides snapshot testing.
GitHub Copilot's suggestions can be helpful or distracting depending on the context. Sometimes it saves me a lot of time, other times it slows me down having to evaluate every suggestion (and I get tired of hitting Esc). I went looking to see if there was a way to quickly toggle it.
I found a post by Rach Smith, quickly-toggle-copilot, that described a solution using a vscode extension and a keybinding. In the comments on that post, Simon Boehm gave a simpler solution that does not require an extension. The command referenced in the comment was not available when the original post was written.
In Visual Studio Code, select File -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts (or [Ctrl+K Ctrl+S]).
Near the top-right of the Keyboard Shortcuts page there is a small button to Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON).
That opens keybindings.json (user settings). I entered the following to use [Ctrl+Shift+x] as the toggle.
{
"command": "github.copilot.toggleCopilot",
"key": "ctrl+shift+x"
},When getting started with a new tool, it's easy to miss important aspects of using the tool when the first steps down the happy path are fairly easy. I have been switching to using pipenv for managing dependencies and virtual environments for Python projects.
If a project previously had a requirements-dev.txt like this:
pytest
ruff
And a requirements.txt (or requirements.in) like this:
pillow
The pipenv install command will create a Pipfile listing those dependencies, create a Pipfile.lock that holds the version details for the dependencies (and sub-dependencies), creates a virtual environment for the project, and installs the dependencies.
pipenv install pytest ruff --dev
pipenv install pillowWhat I was not aware of is that, by default, pipenv install also adds a required Python version to the Pipfile when it creates a new one.
[requires]
python_version = "3.12"The python_version is set based on the current version on the system, and is set to one specific version (not a minimum or range). If the repository is cloned onto another system, and pipenv sync is used to set up the environment and dependencies, it will fail if that specific Python version is not installed. That is not what I want.
It is okay to remove the [requires] \ python_version section.
After removing python_version run pipenv lock to update the Pipfile.lock file.
Reference:
- Pipfile - general-notes-and-recommendations
- pipenv - specifying-versions-of-python
Lately I have been switching to using pipenv to manage dependencies and virtual environments for Python projects. It pairs nicely with using just to run the commands in a per-project Justfile.
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casey/just - Just a command runner
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Introduction - Just Programmer Manual
I learned about Just from reading posts (and code) by Simon Willison, such as this post on Using just with Django.
I run Linux on my main PC where I do my Python projects. I had not yet tried running my scapr screen capture tool on Windows. I have been using pipx to install Python applications on Linux. The docs have instructions for installing pipx on Windows. One method is to use scoop, which is new to me.
I do have a PC with Windows 10, so I gave this a try:
Install scoop, per their instructions, in a Windows PowerShell (5.1) terminal:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
irm get.scoop.sh | iexUse scoop to install pipx.
scoop install pipx
pipx ensurepathUse pipx to install scapr (it's on PyPI)
pipx install scaprAfter reopening the PowerShell terminal, I ran scapr and it captured screenshots with no problems. It works on Windows, but unfortunately it does not work well on Ubuntu with Wayland (but that's another story).