Built with

• __future__ Ensures backwards compatibility

• os Portable way of using operating system dependent functionalities

  • os.path Makes sure all directories are created and all data are downloaded
  • os.makedirs() Creates HeropediaData directory
  • os.remove() Clean data generated during the tests
  • os.rename() Persists original data after testing

• json.loads() Parses json from HeropediaData to a Python dictionary
• ast.literal_eval() Parses data from file to a Python dictionary
• argparse.ArgumentParser Enables the use of arguments. Try $ dotapatch -h

• collections.defaultdict

  • defaultdict(list) stores each line of the changelog inside a list (inside a dictionary)
  • Each dictionary.keys() (hero/item) stores dictionary.values() (hero/item changes)

• urllib.urlopen Fetches HeropediaData files

  • urllib2.urlopen for Python 2
  • urllib.request.urlopen() for Python 3

• logging Manages dotapatch logs

  • DEBUG The numeric value of logging level for debugging
  • logging.StreamHandler Manages the logging output
  • logging.Formatter Formats the logging output
  • logging.FileHandler Saves the logging output into a file
  • logging.getLogger() Keeps logger consistent between classes
  • logging.getLevelName() Returns the numeric value of a string logging level

• tox Run tests for Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)

  • unittest Base for the tests

    • unittest.mock.patch() replaces system argv with mock args

    • nose test suite (nosetests)

      • rednose plugging which improves readability
      • coverage tool for measuring code coverage

• pip Installation manager

  • setuptools Setup manager