<div dir="ltr">IIUC another common layout  is to have folders named test or tests inside each package. This would avoid requiring any changes to the site-packages layout.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Stefan Krah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan@bytereef.org" target="_blank">stefan@bytereef.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hello,<br>
<br>
I wonder if we could get an official site-packages/test directory.  Currently<br>
it seems to be problematic to distribute tests if they are outside the package<br>
directory.  Here is a nice overview of the two main layout possibilities:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://pytest.readthedocs.io/en/reorganize-docs/new-docs/user/directory_structure.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pytest.readthedocs.io/<wbr>en/reorganize-docs/new-docs/<wbr>user/directory_structure.html</a><br>
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<br>
I like the outside-the-package approach, mostly for reasons described very<br>
eloquently here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python_concepts/import_traps.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://python-notes.<wbr>curiousefficiency.org/en/<wbr>latest/python_concepts/import_<wbr>traps.html</a><br>
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CPython itself of course also uses Lib/foo.py and Lib/test/test_foo.py, so it<br>
would make sense to have site-packages/foo.py and site-packages/test/test_foo.<wbr>py.<br>
<br>
For me, this is the natural layout.<br>
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<br>
Stefan Krah<br>
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