App Engine doesn't play nicely with Freezegun. about freezegun HOT 8 CLOSED

If you get a chance, can you try the https://github.com/spulec/freezegun/tree/ctypes branch on App Engine? It will eventually become master for freezegun once I get the python 3 tests passing.

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Any chance that the latest release fixes any of this?

If not, I probably will close as wont-fix unless we can find something wrong with freezegun outside of GAE. I do appreciate you opening the ticket regardless. The fixes will be helpful to future users who search for this.

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Experienced the same kind of issue with GAE. The ctypes branch indeed solves the problem without requiring any monkey-patching.

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Also stumbled on this with GAE. Any chance that the ctypes branch is merged to master?

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Can you confirm that the most recent version doesn't work? If it doesn't work, what happens?

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This is weird.. when I tried the latest version from pypi a week ago it was behaving like a no-op; it was using the current datetime instead of the faked one. Now I tried it again and it works but there's a different problem: it's much slower than the ctypes version. For the same single test:

• after pip install git+https://github.com/spulec/freezegun.git@ctypes

  real 0m0.982s
  user 0m0.826s
  sys 0m0.156s

• after pip install freezegun==0.3.2

  real 0m17.678s
  user 0m16.077s
  sys 0m1.591s

Same observation with other tests too.

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Probably the same as #69

You could try an older version until that issue is resolved.

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After digging into it with the profiler, I isolated it to the import of six.moves:

$ python -m timeit "from freezegun import freeze_time; freeze_time('2012-01-14').start()"
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.85 msec per loop

$ python -m timeit "import six; from freezegun import freeze_time; freeze_time('2012-01-14').start()"
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.93 msec per loop

$ python -m timeit "import six.moves; from freezegun import freeze_time; freeze_time('2012-01-14').start()"
10 loops, best of 3: 301 msec per loop

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