On 4 Mar 2013, at 20:02, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Berker Peksağ <berker.pek...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >>> On Mar 04, 2013, at 07:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> >>>>> $ 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. >>> >>> Where is this work being done (e.g. is there a PEP)? >> >> There is an open issue on the tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue14266 >> >> --Berker > > setup.py's setup(test_suite="x")... not sure if this is a distutils or > setuptools feature. PEP 426 has an extension mechanism that could do > the job.
This is a setuptools extension. There was some discussion for packaging/distutils2 of having test support but I have no idea if that has been picked up for the new bunch of packaging related work. Michael > _______________________________________________ > 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/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ 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