On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:51:04 -0500 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Mar 04, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > >> And One True Way of invoking and/or discovering how to invoke, a package's > >> test suite. > > > >How does unittest's test discovery not solve that? > > I should have added "from the command line". E.g. is it: > > $ python -m unittest discover > $ python setup.py test > $ python setup.py nosetests > $ python -m nose test > $ nosetests-X.Y > > Besides having a multitude of choices, there's almost no way to automatically > discover (e.g. by metadata inspection or some such) how to invoke the tests. > You're often lucky if there's a README.test and it's still accurate.
I hope we can have a "pytest" utility that does the right thing in 3.4 :-) Typing "python -m unittest discover" is too cumbersome. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
