I demonstrate how you can use pytest’s fixture system and the plug-in pytest-asyncio to reduce the boilerplate code required for testing networking libraries.

aiomas is a new, asyncio based library that helps you with creating distributed multi-agent systems. It allows different clocks (real-time, coupled to simulations, …) and different codecs (MsgPack, JSON) to be used. You can also just use the lower level abstractions for RPC or message based request-reply channels.