lp.testing.FakeTime : API documentation

Provides a controllable implementation of time.time().

You can either advance the time manually using advance() or have it done automatically using next_now(). The amount of seconds to advance the time by is set during initialization but can also be changed for single calls of advance() or next_now().

>>> faketime = FakeTime(1000)
>>> print faketime.now()
1000
>>> print faketime.now()
1000
>>> faketime.advance(10)
>>> print faketime.now()
1010
>>> print faketime.next_now()
1011
>>> print faketime.next_now(100)
1111
>>> faketime = FakeTime(1000, 5)
>>> print faketime.next_now()
1005
>>> print faketime.next_now()
1010

Method	__init__	Set up the instance.
Method	advance	Advance the value that will be returned by `now()`.
Method	now	Use this bound method instead of time.time in tests.
Method	next_now	Read the current time and advance it.

def __init__(self, start=None, advance=1):

Set up the instance.

Parameters	start	The value that will initially be returned by `now()`. If None, the current time will be used.
	advance	The value in secounds to advance the clock by by default.

def advance(self, amount=None):

Advance the value that will be returned by now().

Parameters amount The amount of seconds to advance the value by. If None, the configured default value will be used.

def next_now(self, amount=None):

Read the current time and advance it.

Calls advance() and returns the current value of now().
:param amount: The amount of seconds to advance the value by.
    If None, the configured default value will be used.

l.t.FakeTime : class documentation