Getting started

Working on fastly-py requires the installation of a small number of development dependencies. These are listed in dev-requirements.txt and they can be installed in a virtualenv using pip. Once you’ve installed the dependencies, install fastly-py in editable mode. For example:

$ # Create a virtualenv and activate it
$ pip install --requirement dev-requirements.txt
$ pip install --editable .

You are now ready to run the tests and build the documentation.

Running tests

fastly-py unit tests are found in the tests/ directory and are designed to be run using pytest. pytest will discover the tests automatically, so all you have to do is:

$ py.test
...
46 passed in 220.43 seconds

This runs the tests with the default Python interpreter.

You can also verify that the tests pass on other supported Python interpreters. For this we use tox, which will automatically create a virtualenv for each supported Python version and run the tests. For example:

$ tox
...
ERROR:   py26: InterpreterNotFound: python2.6
 py27: commands succeeded
ERROR:   pypy: InterpreterNotFound: pypy
ERROR:   py32: InterpreterNotFound: python3.2
 py33: commands succeeded
 docs: commands succeeded
 pep8: commands succeeded

You may not have all the required Python versions installed, in which case you will see one or more InterpreterNotFound errors.

Building documentation

fastly-py documentation is stored in the docs/ directory. It is written in reStructured Text and rendered using Sphinx.

Use tox to build the documentation. For example:

$ tox -e docs
...
docs: commands succeeded
congratulations :)

The HTML documentation index can now be found at docs/_build/html/index.html.