On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Nathan Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Alan McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Right now there's "if __name__ == '__main__'" boilerplate at the end >> of every test module; nose can find and run tests without that being >> there. I wanted to get the list's take on removing that--it just >> means that if you want to run the tests in one module, you have to do >> "nosetests numpy/blah/test_foo.py" instead of "python >> numpy/blah/test_foo.py". Is there a reason not to remove that >> boilerplate since we've already decided to use nose? >> > > When making frequent changes to test_foo.py, it's often nice to run > test_foo.py directly, rather than installing the whole package and > then testing via nose. > > I would leave the decision up to the maintainers of the individual > submodules. Personally, I find it useful to have.
You can run the test scripts from the source tree without installing them by using nosetests, like this: nosetests nump/numpy/ilb/tests/test_getlimits.py or nosetests nump/numpy/ilb/tests _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
