[Python-Dev] built-in Python test runner (was: Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda) (original) (raw)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Mar 5 01:09:39 CET 2013

On 5 March 2013 12:49, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Mar 05, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Robert Collins wrote: >The big thing is automated tools, not developers. Exactly. I don't understand. Is "python -m unittest discover" too much typing for automatic tools? If anything, it's much more portable across Python versions since any new coommand/script won't be added before 3.4, while the longer version works in 2.7 and 3.2+

It isn't about length. It is about knowing that that is what to type (and btw that exact command cannot run twisted's tests, among many other projects tests).

Perhaps we are talking about different things. A top level script to run tests is interesting, but orthogonal to the thing Barry was asking for.

-Rob

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