[Python-Dev] 3.5 unittest does not support namespace packages for discovering (original) (raw)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Mar 23 15:14:28 EDT 2017

On 24 March 2017 at 04:59, INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:

And this issue is relating to it too: http://bugs.python.org/issue29716

In short, "namespace package" is for make it possible to pip install_ _foobar foobaz, when foobar provides foo.bar and foobaz provides foo.baz package. (foo is namespace package). If unittests searches normal directly, it may walk deep into very large tree containing millions of directories. I don't like it.

That is a risk, OTOH I think the failure to do what folk expect is a bigger risk.

-Rob

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