Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
I think we should be moving *away* from having special infrastructure in regrtest. As much stuff as makes sense should be moved to unittest, and we've been slowly doing that. Correspondingly, we should use Sphinx's native test facilities, not add special stuff to regrtest. If Sphinx doesn't have the ability to run individual files, we should add that ability to Sphinx, not regrtest. (Note: I personally do not use the ability recently added to regrtest to select unit tests from the command line, instead I use the unittest CLI directly, and I think that's the better way to do it. IMO regrtest should be focused on running the test *suite*, not on running individual tests.)
The main reason to add it to regrtest was to allow special test modes with it (such as -R or -F). (and, also, the unittest CLI's poor online help makes it rather unusable for me :-)). But I agree on the principle that unittest should be expanded to better accomodate the needs of regrtest. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15629> _______________________________________