49: tox - Oliver Bestwalter

tox is a simple yet powerful tool that is used by many Python projects.

tox is not just a tool to help you test a Python project against multiple versions of Python. In this interview, Oliver and Brian just scratch the surface of this simple yet powerful automation tool.

This is from the tox documentation:

tox is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for:

• checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters
• running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice
• acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing.

Yet tox is so much more. It can help create development environments, hold all of your admin scripts, ...

I hope you enjoy this wonderful discussion of tox with Oliver Bestwalter, one of the core maintainers of tox.

Special Guest: Oliver Bestwalter.

Links:

• tox project documentation
• tox recreate : "Have you turned it off and on again?" for tox
• "Hello world" of tox
• tox also has plugins
• talk by Bernát Gábor about a tox based workflow at EuroPython 2018
• adding a description to your environments
• detox - distributed tox
• devpi: private package index
• PyCharm plugin to easily set the project interpreter via context menu: PyVenvmanage
• power mode in atom
• Power Mode for PyCharm