Automatically Insert Jira Ticket In Maggit Commit

We use Jira where I work and I find it helpful to include the Jira issue/ticket number pre-populated within the commit message. This only works if the branch I’m working on starts with the Jira issue number. Otherwise it doesn’t input anything. Here’s the snippet that does so:

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Fixtures From Type Annotations

I read this blog post about converting function/method arguments into what their type annotations mentioned they would be. You can read more from that link, but pretty much I got an idea that someone should be able to create fixtures from type annotations. Anyways, here’s a proof of concept just using the basic built-in types in Python.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python

Unittest equivalent of Pytest's Parametrize

I’m currently using the unittest framework for writing tests. One thing I miss is being able to use the @pytest.mark.parametrize decorator to test out different inputs. If you know about this feature, then you know why it’s so useful. Luckily, unittest has a similar feature that starting working since Python 3.4, it’s called subtests.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python

How To Add Custom Headers To Google Cloud Endpoints

If you want to add custom response headers to GCE (Google Cloud Endpoints), you’re going to have to do some monkey patching.

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How To Add Default Packages To A Virtualenv

If you ever need certain packages to be installed by default when creating a virtualenv through virtualenvwrapper, then this post might help you out. Now there’s a couple of ways of doing what I’m about to show but this approach is the one I like the best.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python

Google Cloud Endpoints V2 Application Error

When working with Google Cloud Endpoints Frameworks(CEF) there was an unexpected issue that I kept running into. The Google Cloud docs don’t mention (or at least I didn’t find it) about configuring your app.yaml file for GCE v2 usage.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python