[Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue May 28 20:02:45 CEST 2013

On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:27:18 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On May 25, 2013, at 09:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>How about always running the version specific targets, e.g. >nosetests-2.7? We have nosetests-2.7 and nosetests3 in /usr/bin, but we generally recommend folks not use these, especially for things like (build time) package tests. It's harder to iterate over when the installed versions are unknown statically, e.g. if you wanted to run all the tests over all available versions of Python.

It sounds like you want a dedicated script or utility for this ("run all the tests over all available versions of Python") rather than hack it every time you package a Python library.

Your use case also doesn't seem to impact end-users.

This is why I would really like to see all scripts provide a -m equivalent for command line invocation. This might be a little awkward for < Python 2.7 (where IIRC -m doesn't work with packages).

Do you still support Python < 2.7?

Regards

Antoine.

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