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cppbuiltins
Advanced tools
In what follows python is an alias for python3.5
or any later version (python3.6 and so on).
Install the latest pip & setuptools packages versions
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
Download and install the latest stable version from PyPI repository
python -m pip install --upgrade cppbuiltins
Download the latest version from GitHub repository
git clone https://github.com/lycantropos/cppbuiltins.git
cd cppbuiltins
Install
python setup.py install
Install bump2version.
Choose which version number category to bump following semver specification.
Test bumping version
bump2version --dry-run --verbose $CATEGORY
where $CATEGORY is the target version number category name, possible
values are patch/minor/major.
Bump version
bump2version --verbose $CATEGORY
This will set version to major.minor.patch-alpha.
Test bumping version
bump2version --dry-run --verbose release
Bump version
bump2version --verbose release
This will set version to major.minor.patch.
Install dependencies
python -m pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
Plain
pytest
Inside Docker container:
docker-compose --file docker-compose.yml up
Bash script:
./run-tests.sh
PowerShell script:
.\run-tests.ps1
FAQs
Alternative implementation of python builtins based on C++ `std` library.
We found that cppbuiltins demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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