[Distutils] Patch for your setuptools issue

[Michael Foord]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ah - I see the problem. In Python 2.5 testRunner defaulted to None and main
>> created its own TextTestRunner. In 2.6 the default was changed to be the
>> TextTestRunner class. Unfortunately 2.5 needs either None or an instance of
>> a runner.
>>
>> The easiest thing to do might be to create a dictionary of keyword arguments
>> and omit testRunner if it is None. Call main with unittest.main(**args).
>>     
>
> Yeah that shall do the trick, thanks
>   
It's a bad change in unittest (not me thankfully ;-).

I'll see if I can get it switched back in 2.7 (replacing testRunner with 
the class if it is passed in as None).

All the best,

Michael

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