Rex Liu
Rex Liu works as a Data Management Professional at Bloomberg. His team within the firm's Data department processes company financials in related to Asian markets, and he uses Python to build and maintain data pipelines that acquire, extract, and process financial data. Rex holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Are you tired of your code working in your environment, but failing when your teammate tries to run it? Are you tired of typing commands into your bash terminal again and again just to run your test cases? Are you tired of pushing your code to a shared repo, just to find out it failed the CI checks put in place by the repo's admin?
If you've ever encountered any of these situations, you may benefit from having tox in your CI workflow. With tox, you can set up virtual environments to automatically run your format checks and test cases - all in a single file. It's a simple and elegant solution that can save you and your team time and frustration.