I'm writing for the Google app engine and have stubbed my toe yet again on a simple obstacle. Non-trivial app engines programs require the import of several modules that aren't normally in my PYTHONPATH. I'd like to be able to test my code outside of the app engine framework. I've tried several solutions in the past that worked but weren't particularly elegant or portable. Now I've had a new idea. Here's my latest attempt:
import os, re if __name__ == '__main__': pass else from google.appengine.ext import webapp register = webapp.template.create_template_register() This works great, except my code makes use of the resister object in several places, like this: register.filter(emptylines) Fortunately, I don't need the functionality of the object, I just want something that won't generate an error when I use it. So, what is the quickest way to to create such an object (replacing the 'pass' in my first snippet). My solution is this: class C: def filter(self, *args, **kwds): pass register = C() but it seems like I should be able to do something "better", as measured by lines of code, faking more than just a 'filter' method, or both. Any ideas? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list