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Learning Python Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Python Application Development Take Python beyond scripting to build robust, reusable, and efficient applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889196
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ninad Sathaye Ninad Sathaye
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing Simple Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Dealing with Exceptions 3. Modularize, Package, Deploy! 4. Documentation and Best Practices 5. Unit Testing and Refactoring 6. Design Patterns 7. Performance – Identifying Bottlenecks 8. Improving Performance – Part One 9. Improving Performance – Part Two, NumPy and Parallelization 10. Simple GUI Applications Index

Refactoring preamble


Let's write one more unit test for the game. This time we will focus our attention on the main class AttackOfTheOrcs. When the play method is called, the first thing it does is to randomly occupy the five huts. We will write a test to verify that there are exactly five huts. Another thing to test is that the hut occupant must be an instance of the class AbstractGameUnit, or should be of the type None.

The _occupy_hut method has the related code. But this necessitates writing a test for a non-public method (or call it protected or private).

What you say is right! Although Python does not restrict you from calling methods that start with an underscore, we should be nice to others, and try to avoid calling such methods.

So how do we handle this situation? Here is a list of the available options:

  1. In the test, create an instance of AttackOfThOrcs, and directly call the protected method.

  2. Transform this method into a public method (remove the underscore prefix from the name...

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