Unit testing a python app that uses the requests library

Question

I am writing an application that performs REST operations using Kenneth Reitz\'s requests library and I\'m struggling to find a nice way to unit test these applications, bec

Answer 1

Missing from these answers is requests-mock.

From their page:

>>> import requests
>>> import requests_mock

As a context manager:

>>> with requests_mock.mock() as m:

...     m.get('http://test.com', text='data')
...     requests.get('http://test.com').text
...
'data'

Or as a decorator:

>>> @requests_mock.mock()
... def test_func(m):
...     m.get('http://test.com', text='data')
...     return requests.get('http://test.com').text
...
>>> test_func()
'data'