New submission from Marc Abramowitz <msabr...@gmail.com>: Currently, the devguide (http://docs.python.org/devguide/) mentions two sets of commands for running the CPython test suite:
* For Python 3, one uses: ./python -m test * For Python 2.7, one must use: ./python -m test.regrtest because ./python -m test fails with an error:No module named test.__main__; 'test' is a package and cannot be directly executed If you take these two variations and multiply by the 3 variations of "python" command required depending on the OS (Windows, OS X, or other), then there are 6 permutations. I would say that this doesn't exactly encourage newcomers to CPython to contribute. To take away a bit of the complexity, I have an extremely simple patch that adds one two line file to make ./python -m test work on 2.7. ---------- components: Tests files: python2.7_test.patch keywords: patch messages: 161180 nosy: Marc.Abramowitz priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: (Patch included) Make ./python -m test work to run test suite in Python 2.7 versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25648/python2.7_test.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14861> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
