On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> If you put your tests outside your package, then you can't install the > tests for two packages simultaneously, because everyone's tests are just in > the top-level package "tests". This tends to infest the whole package, > since then tests import things from each other using 'from tests import > ...'. This is recommended by the hitchhiker's guide, and seconded by < > http://as.ynchrono.us/2007/12/filesystem-structure-of-python-project_21.html > >. > I don't want to be harsh here but arguments would be way more interesting to discuss, as opposed to giving links to JPC's outdated packaging guide. He's an exceptional developer but many of the things inside that article are out of fashion (he disagrees about using console_scripts entrypoints, doesn't understand what src is for and so on). I don't think anyone would ever intentionally put a "tests" package in site-packages, why would you mention that? Thanks, -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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