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

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 07:39:53 CET 2013

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't care much what that mechanism is, but I think the easiest way to get there is to tell people to extend distutils with a test command (or use Distribute) and perhaps add such a command in 3.4 that will do the unittest discover thingy. I remember looking into zope.testrunner hooking into that mechanism as well, but I don't remember what the outcome was.

Doesn't setuptools/distribute already have a setup.py test command?

Yes, but distutils do not.

That seems like the easiest way forward?

Yup. Although I can understand people if they want something that is independent of packaging/distribution.

//Lennart

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