49: tox - Oliver Bestwalter

tox is a simple yet powerful tool that is used by many Python projects. tox is not just a tool to help you test a Python project against multiple versions of Python. In this interview, Oliver and Brian just scratch the surface of this simple yet powerful automation tool. This is from the tox documentation: tox is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for: checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing. Yet tox is so much more. It can help create development environments, hold all of your admin scripts, ... I hope you enjoy this wonderful discussion of tox with Oliver Bestwalter, one of the core maintainers of tox. Special Guest: Oliver Bestwalter.