On 4 Mar 2013, at 19:26, Berker Peksağ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com