[Distutils] test resources with setup tools

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:19 PM 4/23/2010 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>Hi.
>
>In a project test suite I need some external resources, that must be
>downloaded from internet.
>
>Is this directly supported by setuptools, or it is better if I write an
>additional script that does the job?

If the resources can be accessed in the form of an .egg file (or 
directory) added to sys.path, setuptools can handle it.  Just add 
'tests_require=requirementslist' to your setup().