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Reported by a user and verified by me with both Python 2.7 and 3.2.
Trying to run tests by module or package name seems to fail.
directory structure:
 project root: C:\Users\hpierson\Projects\pytest
 \test
 __init__.py (empty)
 testfoo.py (sample test file
running test package by name - no tests discovered
C:\Users\hpierson\Projects\pytest
PS» cpy C:\Python31\Scripts\unit2.py test
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.000s
 
running test module by name - can't find module
C:\Users\hpierson\Projects\pytest
PS» cpy C:\Python31\Scripts\unit2.py test.testfoo
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Python31\Scripts\unit2.py", line 7, in <module>
 main_()
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\main.py", line 237, in main_
 main(module=None)
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\main.py", line 94, in __init__
 self.parseArgs(argv)
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\main.py", line 149, in parseArgs
 self.createTests()
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\main.py", line 158, in createTests
 self.module)
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\loader.py", line 133, in loadTestsFromNames
 suites = [self.loadTestsFromName(name, module) for name in names]
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\loader.py", line 133, in <listcomp>
 suites = [self.loadTestsFromName(name, module) for name in names]
 File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\unittest2\loader.py", line 101, in loadTestsFromName
 parent, obj = obj, getattr(obj, part)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'testfoo'