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

Marius Gedminas marius at gedmin.as
Wed Oct 7 07:35:08 CEST 2015


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:21:27PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 06, 2015, at 06:21 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> 
> >FreeBSD relies on ``python setup.py test`` as it's preferred test invocation,
> >so it apparently doesn't find it useful either.
> 
> Oh how I wish there was a standard way to *declare* how to run the test suite,
> such that all our automated tools (or the humans :) didn't have to guess.

I have hopes for 'tox.ini' becoming the standard way to test a Python
project.

Marius Gedminas
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