Contributing¶

Testing¶

pytest is used for unit testing. The tests are found in mido/test_*.py.

If you can please run tests in both Python 2 and Python 3 before you commit code. I’ve renamed the executables so I can just run pytest2 && pytest3 instead of remembering what the programs are called. (I think they were py.test and py.test-3.)

You can also set up a commit hook:

echo "pytest2 && pytest3" >.git/hooks/pre-commit
chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit

This will run tests when you commit and cancel the commit if any tests fail.

Testing MIDI file support¶

Test Files¶

The Lakh MIDI Dataset is a great resouce for testing the MIDI file parser.

Publishing (Release Checklist)¶

I am currently the only one with access to publishing on PyPI and readthedocs. This will hopefully change in the future.

First Time: Register With PyPI¶

./setup.py register

Test¶

rm -rf docs/_build && ./setup.py docs
pytest2 && pytest3
check-manifest -v

(pip3 install check-manifest)

You can also test that the package installs by installing it in a virtualenv with pip and easy_install (Python 2 and 3) and importing it. This is a bit tedious. Perhaps there is a good way to automate it.

Bump Version¶

X.Y.Z is the version, for example 1.1.18 or 1.2.0.

update version and date in docs/changes.rst
update version in mido/__init__.py
git commit -a -c “Bumped version to X.Y.Z.”

Then:

git tag X.Y.Z
git push
git push --tags

Publish¶

This has stopped working recently (late 2016) so instead I just go to the web page and upload from there.

Publish in PyPI:

python setup.py publish
python setup.py bdist_wheel upload

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