Hacking on zope.event

Getting the Code

The main repository for zope.event is in the Zope Subversion repository:

http://svn.zope.org/zope.event

You can get a read-only Subversion checkout from there:

$ svn checkout svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.event/trunk zope.event

The project also mirrors the trunk from the Subversion repository as a Bazaar branch on Launchpad:

https://code.launchpad.net/zope.event

You can branch the trunk from there using Bazaar:

$ bzr branch lp:zope.event

Running the tests in a virtualenv

If you use the virtualenv package to create lightweight Python development environments, you can run the tests using nothing more than the python binary in a virtualenv. First, create a scratch environment:

$ /path/to/virtualenv --no-site-packages /tmp/hack-zope.event

Next, get this package registered as a “development egg” in the environment:

$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/python setup.py develop

Finally, run the tests using the build-in setuptools testrunner:

$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/python setup.py test
running test
...
test_empty (zope.event.tests.Test_notify) ... ok
test_not_empty (zope.event.tests.Test_notify) ... ok

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

OK

If you have the nose package installed in the virtualenv, you can use its testrunner too:

$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/easy_install nose
...
$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/python setup.py nosetests
running nosetests
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 3 tests in 0.011s

OK

or:

$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/nosetests
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 3 tests in 0.011s

OK

If you have the coverage pacakge installed in the virtualenv, you can see how well the tests cover the code:

$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/easy_install nose coverage
...
$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/python setup.py nosetests \
    --with coverage --cover-package=zope.event
running nosetests
...
Name         Stmts   Exec  Cover   Missing
------------------------------------------
zope.event       5      5   100%
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 3 tests in 0.019s

OK

Building the documentation in a virtualenv

zope.event uses the nifty Sphinx documentation system for building its docs. Using the same virtualenv you set up to run the tests, you can build the docs:

$ /tmp/hack-zope.event/bin/easy_install Sphinx
...
$ cd docs
$ PATH=/tmp/hack-zope.event/bin:$PATH make html
sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html
...
build succeeded.

Build finished. The HTML pages are in _build/html.

You can also test the code snippets in the documentation:

$ PATH=/tmp/hack-zope.event/bin:$PATH make doctest
sphinx-build -b doctest -d _build/doctrees   . _build/doctest
...
running tests...

Document: index
---------------
1 items passed all tests:
  17 tests in default
17 tests in 1 items.
17 passed and 0 failed.
Test passed.

Doctest summary
===============
   17 tests
    0 failures in tests
    0 failures in setup code
build succeeded.
Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the  \
    results in _build/doctest/output.txt.

Running the tests using zc.buildout

zope.event ships with its own buildout.cfg file and bootstrap.py for setting up a development buildout:

$ /path/to/python2.6 bootstrap.py
...
Generated script '.../bin/buildout'
$ bin/buildout
Develop: '/home/tseaver/projects/Zope/BTK/event/.'
...
Generated script '.../bin/sphinx-quickstart'.
Generated script '.../bin/sphinx-build'.

You can now run the tests:

$ bin/test --all
Running zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in 0.000 seconds.
  Ran 2 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors in 0.000 seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in 0.000 seconds.

Building the documentation using zc.buildout

The zope.event buildout installs the Sphinx scripts required to build the documentation, including testing its code snippets:

$ cd docs
$ PATH=../bin:$PATH make doctest html
.../bin/sphinx-build -b doctest -d .../docs/_build/doctrees   .../docs .../docs/_build/doctest
running tests...

Document: index
---------------
1 items passed all tests:
  17 tests in default
17 tests in 1 items.
17 passed and 0 failed.
Test passed.

Doctest summary
===============
   17 tests
    0 failures in tests
    0 failures in setup code
build succeeded.
Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the  results in .../docs/_build/doctest/output.txt.
.../bin/sphinx-build -b html -d .../docs/_build/doctrees   .../docs .../docs/_build/html
...
build succeeded.

Build finished. The HTML pages are in .../docs/_build/html.

Running Tests on Multiple Python Versions via tox

tox is a Python-based test automation tool designed to run tests against multiple Python versions. It creates a virtualenv for each configured version, installs the current package and configured dependencies into each virtualenv, and then runs the configured commands.

zope.event configures the following tox environments via its tox.ini file:

  • The py26 environment builds a virtualenv with python2.6, installs zope.event, and runs the tests via python setup.py test -q.
  • The py27 environment builds a virtualenv with python2.7, installs zope.event, and runs the tests via python setup.py test -q.
  • The py32 environment builds a virtualenv with python3.2, installs zope.event and dependencies, and runs the tests via python setup.py test -q.
  • The pypy environment builds a virtualenv with pypy, installs zope.event, and runs the tests via python setup.py test -q.
  • The coverage environment builds a virtualenv with python2.6, installs zope.event, installs nose and coverage, and runs nosetests with statement coverage.
  • The docs environment builds a virtualenv with python2.6, installs zope.event, installs Sphinx and dependencies, and then builds the docs and exercises the doctest snippets.

This example requires that you have a working python2.6 on your path, as well as installing tox:

$ tox -e py26
GLOB sdist-make: .../zope.interface/setup.py
py26 sdist-reinst: .../zope.interface/.tox/dist/zope.interface-4.0.2dev.zip
py26 runtests: commands[0]
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

OK
___________________________________ summary ____________________________________
py26: commands succeeded
congratulations :)

Running tox with no arguments runs all the configured environments, including building the docs and testing their snippets:

$ tox
GLOB sdist-make: .../zope.interface/setup.py
py26 sdist-reinst: .../zope.interface/.tox/dist/zope.interface-4.0.2dev.zip
py26 runtests: commands[0]
...
Doctest summary
===============
 17 tests
   0 failures in tests
   0 failures in setup code
   0 failures in cleanup code
build succeeded.
___________________________________ summary ____________________________________
py26: commands succeeded
py27: commands succeeded
py32: commands succeeded
pypy: commands succeeded
coverage: commands succeeded
docs: commands succeeded
congratulations :)

Submitting a Bug Report

zope.event tracks its bugs on Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.event

Please submit bug reports and feature requests there.

Sharing Your Changes

Note

Please ensure that all tests are passing before you submit your code. If possible, your submission should include new tests for new features or bug fixes, although it is possible that you may have tested your new code by updating existing tests.

If you got a read-only checkout from the Subversion repository, and you have made a change you would like to share, the best route is to let Subversion help you make a patch file:

$ svn diff > zope.event-cool_feature.patch

You can then upload that patch file as an attachment to a Launchpad bug report.

If you branched the code from Launchpad using Bazaar, you have another option: you can “push” your branch to Launchpad:

$ bzr push lp:~tseaver/zope.event/cool_feature

After pushing your branch, you can link it to a bug report on Launchpad, or request that the maintainers merge your branch using the Launchpad “merge request” feature.