What breaks if I remove lib/python2.7/test/* ?

Tue Apr 19 17:20:46 EDT 2011

On 19-4-2011 19:06, cjblaine wrote:
> What breaks if I remove lib/python2.7/test/* ? What purpose does it serve?
>> It is 26MB for me.
>> I am trying to trim my Python install for good reason.
>> Thanks for any info!

Terry answered what it is for. Personally, I also once used some functions from
test.test_support in my own code. There's some handy stuff in there. Also, the venerable
Pystone lives in test.pystone.
However, I don't think the test/* stuff is actually considered to be part of the
standard library? I believe it becomes available on many Linux installations only after
installing the python-dev package (or similar). So my guess is that you are safe to
delete it if you really need the disk space.
-Irmen