[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Mar 4 19:41:48 CET 2013

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:51:04 -0500 Barry Warsaw <barry at 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.

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