[Distutils] Where should I put tests when packaging python modules?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 06, 2015, at 05:54 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>I dislike putting tests inside the package.

I'm a big fan of putting the tests inside the package.  I've often looked at a
package's tests to get a better understanding of something that was unclear
for the documentation, or didn't work the way I expected.  Having the tests
there in the installed package makes it easier to refer to.  I also find that
with tox+nose2 (my preferred one-two punch for testing), it makes it quite
easy to find and run the full test suite or individual tests based on a regexp
pattern.  I also like the symmetry of having a docs/ directory for doctests
and a tests/ directory for unittests.

For complex packages with lots of subpackages, I have lots of tests/
directories, so that the unitests are near to the code they test.  This way
the source tree gets organized for free without additional complexity in an
outside-the-package tests tree.

YMMV,
-Barry
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