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.Links:tox project documentationtox recreate : "Have you turned it off and on again?" for tox"Hello world" of toxtox also has pluginstalk by Bernát Gábor about a tox based workflow at EuroPython 2018adding a description to your environmentsdetox - distributed toxdevpi: private package indexPyCharm plugin to easily set the project interpreter via context menu: PyVenvmanagepower mode in atomPower Mode for PyCharm

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