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

[Donald Stufft]

On October 7, 2015 at 7:58:55 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș (contact at ionelmc.ro) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Thomas Güttler > > wrote:
> > Why not use `setup.py test`?
> >
>  
> Because:
>  
> 1. There's Tox​, which does exactly that, and more. It's maintained. It
> gets features.


tox and setup.py test are not really equivalent. There’s no way (to my knowledge) to test the item outside of a virtual environment. This is important for downstreams who want to test that the package build and the tests successfully are executed in their environment, not within some virtual environment.

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