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Let's say you need to update lots of keys in Amazon S3. If you have many objects in your S3 bucket, this can be quite slow. Of course, as a Python developer, you're using the nifty boto library. We can make update all of your keys much, much faster using multiple threads!

I wanted to provide a super simple example of using Ned Batchelder's coverage.py for testing my Python unittest coverage. The thing that tripped me up at first is that I needed to call coverage.py in such a way to exercise Python's unittest framework. For example:

coverage run -m unittest discover;
coverage report -m;

Mocking dates is a well-known PITA with Python. But here's a quick explanation of how I worked around this deficiency.

Step 1: Add the date as a property to the production class. I had to refactor my code, and I suspect you will too. Before mocking this date, I was calling date.today() from the build_widget method.

from datetime import date

class WidgetWorker(object):
    date = date.today()
    def build_widget(self):
        return {'date_created': self.date}