[New-bugs-announce] [issue18198] unittest discover should provide a way to define discovery at package level

[vila]

New submission from vila:

While most test suites are a tree with test_*.py files, there are cases where being able to define the discovery for a subtree in the package __init__.py file comes handy.

A poc implementation is available at 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~canonical-isd-qa/selenium-simple-test/trunk/view/head:/src/sst/tests/test_loader.py 

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~canonical-isd-qa/selenium-simple-test/trunk/view/head:/src/sst/loader.py

It allows test writers to define their own discovery when needed (including a specific edge case for the project mentioned above: test scripts that should not be imported at load time).

It also addresses http://bugs.python.org/issue16662

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severity: normal
status: open
title: unittest discover should provide a way to define discovery at package level

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