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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Mar 5 01:21:58 CET 2013

On 4 Mar 2013, at 19:26, Berker Peksağ <berker.peksag at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at 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

Indeed, and unittest2 (the backport) which has to work with Python 2.6 (where "python -m package_name" doesn't work) has "unit2" as a shortcut. So it has an advantage over the standard library version here.

I'd like to see pyunit as a short-cut for "python -m unittest discover", with a "pyunit-3.x" variant too.

Barry objects that Linux distributions won't want to support all of these, which is frankly their problem.

Michael

--Berker

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