Show HN: HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python

I'm just getting start with Python and was using the Requests library this morning. I didn't like that my tests were coupled to both the library and an Internet connection existing.

This just hits the frontpage today and it is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!

Hot damn, this makes testing easy. Thanks a lot for the module! There's a small typo in your page. "HTTPretty monkey matches" should be "HTTPretty monkey patches".

Great job though!

I'm working on a HTTP testing library based on Ruby's VCR library[1]. I've got it to a pretty basic state where it is somewhat usable. I'm definitely interested in this area. Ruby's VCR uses the Webmock library as a backend (though it can use other pluggable backends) to mock out all the HTTP requests. I had to sort of grow my own Webmock - maybe I can integrate HTTPretty instead so we don't duplicate effort.

[1]: http://www.github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy/

Oh wow, this could turn out to be very useful. Can use this for automated testing for public APIs.

Wonderful, was considering writing this just the other day. Thank you good sir.

One thing that would be really nice, is a record mode and serialization (to JSON/yaml/etc...) plus a context manager (python's with). How ready are you for pull requests? ;-)

Fantastic, I tried to roll my own a few times but never got to this point. Thanks !

Very useful. Thank-you.

Great! I always used to have a fixed set of functions written in my personal code base todo these things. Glad yo know you have made a generic library. Good job.