andymckay/nose-blockage:

An experimental nose plugin to block access to external services that you really should not be accessing in your unit tests.

To use::

pip install nose-blockage

Then add the following to your tests::

--with-blockage

If you use django-nose <https://github.com/jbalogh/django-nose>_ then add this to your Django settings to activate it::

NOSE_PLUGINS = [ 'blockage.plugins.NoseBlockage', ] NOSE_ARGS = [ '--with-blockage', # ... ]

Blocking HTTP

By default it whitelists localhost and 127.0.0.1. To change the whitelist::

--http-whitelist=some.site,some.other.site

If the code hits a http connection then instead of completing it will raise a MockHTTPCall exception. Please go and mock your tests appropriately.

By default it whitelists no domains. To change the whitelist::

--smtp-whitelist=some.site

It will raise a MockSMTPCall exception.