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		ericmoritz on Dec 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes nice project. I usually avoid this by making my APIs accept a datetime objects and make the client code create the datetime object. Pure functions make tests simple.

new_test on Dec 12, 2012 [–]

That's what I've been doing, but not because I believe it to be a better way, but because I'm to lazy to implement my own FreezeGun. I don't think the production code should contain unnecessary complexity that is only used for testing.

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