asynciotimemachine module

Main module.

class asynciotimemachine.TimeMachine(*poargs, event_loop: Optional[asyncio.events.AbstractEventLoop] = None, **kwargs)

Bases: object

A monkey-patch helper to advance an event loop’s time.

Parameters:event_loop – the event loop to monkey-patch (default: main loop).

advance_by(amount: float)

Advance the time reference by the given amount.

Parameters:amount – number of seconds to advance. Raises:ValueError – if amount is negative.

advance_to(timestamp: float)

Advance the time reference so that now is the given timestamp.

Parameters:timestamp – the new current timestamp. Raises:ValueError – if timestamp is in the past.