...aking) be said to be equal to one another -- see What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values? for more details and information. Instead, use math.isnan(...) if you need to determine if a value is NaN or not. Furthermore, the exact semantics of the == operation...

...'t have a direct output on which you can assert Sometimes you just need to confirm that your tested method is sending the correct indirect outputs to its collaborators (which you are mocking). Regarding your concern about breaking your tests when refactoring, that is somewhat expected when using m...

...ject'>) with A forced to come in resolution order only once and after all of its subclasses, so that overrides (i.e., C's override of member x) actually work sensibly. It's one of the reasons that old-style classes should be avoided: multiple inheritance with "diamond-like" patterns just doesn...

...uery git to find out which branches contain a given commit? gitk will usually list the branches, unless there are too many, in which case it just says "many (38)" or something like that. I need to know the full list, or at least whether certain branches contain the commit. ...

Every time my app crashes Xcode highlights the UIApicationMain() call in the main() function as the line that caused the crash. In some cases that used to be normal (segmentation fault for example) but the crash I am trying to deal with is a simple SIGABRT with detailed information logged in the con...

...ain C exports, use a C project not C++. C++ DLLs rely on name-mangling for all the C++isms (namespaces etc...). You can compile your code as C by going into your project settings under C/C++->Advanced, there is an option "Compile As" which corresponds to the compiler switches /TP and /TC. If you ...

My understanding is that MagicMock is a superset of Mock that automatically does "magic methods" thus seamlessly providing support for lists, iterations and so on... Then what is the reason for plain Mock existing? Isn't that just a stripped down version of MagicMock that can be practically ...

...conduct your experiment there by setting bar.a = 1. This way, you will actually be modifying bar.__dict__['a'] which is the 'real' value of a in this context. It's a little convoluted with three layers but bar.a = 1 changes the value of a in the module called bar that is actually derived from __ini...

...this: 4.2.3 re Module Contents escape(string) Return string with all non-alphanumerics backslashed; this is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression metacharacters in it. A simplistic example, search any occurence of the provided string opt...

...ate ).lol() // alert message In the snippet above, I define a method for all Date objects ( already existing ones and all new ones ). extend is usually a high level function that copies the prototype of a new subclass that you want to extend from the base class. So you can do something like: e...