How-to guides

In this section, we provide information, useful for advanced PyTango developers.

• Testing PyTango Devices
  • Approaches to testing Tango devices
  • Device Test Context Classes API
  • Mocking clients for Testing
  • Code coverage for Tango devices
• Multiprocessing/Multithreading
  • Using clients with multiprocessing
  • Multithreading - clients and servers
• Starting/creating/deleting devices
  • Multiple device classes (Python and C++) in a server
  • Create/Delete devices dynamically
• Writing TANGO servers with original API
  • The main part of a Python device server
  • The PyDsExpClass class in Python
  • Defining commands
  • Defining attributes
  • The PyDsExp class in Python
• OpenTelemetry
  • Background
  • How to check if your PyTango installation supports telemetry
  • How to run a device server that emits telemetry
  • How to change device telemetry at runtime
  • How to persist device telemetry configuration
  • How to use telemetry topics
  • How to include PyTango kernel spans
  • How to run a client that emits telemetry
  • How to change client telemetry at runtime
  • How to add process information to the telemetry traces
  • How to add custom information to device traces
  • How to manually instrument your own application
  • How to hide error messages when traces cannot be sent
  • How to reduce the number of traces being stored
  • Telemetry API summary
  • Further examples
• PyTango Database Device Server
• How to Contribute
  • Report a bug
  • Workflow
  • MyST and Sphinx
  • Source code standard
  • Using pixi for development
  • Using Conda for development
  • Using Docker for development
  • Releasing a new version
  • Maintainer internal docs