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Curious about the use of Dependency Injection here. I'm a Python guy and it rarely gets mentioned in my world as far as I'm aware. I always assumed it was mostl

• RhodesianHunter 9y ago
  How well are your codebases unit tested? I shiver thinking about trying to add good tests to a project in any language without good di/ioc.
  • bramblerose 9y ago
    The dynamicness of languages like Python make it relatively easy to do so. For example, it's difficult in Java to mock an http request if you can't inject a `HttpRequestor` (or so) to the object you're testing. In Python, it is common practice to patch objects, which means that even though the code calls `requests.get()`, the call will actually be patched through to a mock. (in the Java world, this is possible with e.g. PowerMock, but generally frowned upon)