FWIW, I've had very good experience with putting tests for package `foo`
in a directory/package called `test_foo`.
This combines the best of both worlds -- it can be easily separated for
distribution (like `tests`), and it doesn't cause name conflicts (like
`foo.tests`).
On 01/19/2018 05:23 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
Another common approach is to not ship tests as part of your (runtime)
package at all - they are in the sdist but not the wheels nor are they
deployed with "setup.py install". In my experience, this is the usual
approach projects take if they don't have the tests in the package
directory. (I don't think I've *ever* seen a project try to install
tests except by including them in the package directory...)
Paul
On 19 January 2018 at 16:10, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
IIUC another common layout is to have folders named test or tests inside
each package. This would avoid requiring any changes to the site-packages
layout.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote:
Hello,
I wonder if we could get an official site-packages/test directory.
Currently
it seems to be problematic to distribute tests if they are outside the
package
directory. Here is a nice overview of the two main layout possibilities:
http://pytest.readthedocs.io/en/reorganize-docs/new-docs/user/directory_structure.html
I like the outside-the-package approach, mostly for reasons described very
eloquently here:
http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python_concepts/import_traps.html
CPython itself of course also uses Lib/foo.py and Lib/test/test_foo.py, so
it
would make sense to have site-packages/foo.py and
site-packages/test/test_foo.py.
For me, this is the natural layout.
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