Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you
I love faker! It pisses me off a bit that the library is named faker but the package is fake-factory. It trips me up all the time.<p>I use it with factory_boy (<a href="http://factoryboy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/" rel="nofollow">http://factoryboy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a>) to generate test fixtures that seem to make logical sense. Usernames are real names, birthdays are real dates, etc.<p>I think it helps with experimentation when you're using the REPL and also makes bugs stand out a bit more easily. Very neat for demoing purposes too.<p>Perhaps my favourite is faker.bs() which always gets a giggle when doing live demos.