[issue8911] regrtest.main should have a test skipping argument

[Jerry Seutter]

Jerry Seutter <jseutter at gmail.com> added the comment:

Hi Brett (and others)

I'm thinking of making the following changes:

1. In Lib/test/regrtest.py, move command line parsing out of main() into a function called parse_command_line()

2. parse_command_line() will parse command line settings and store them in a dictionary that can be passed in as **kwargs to main().

3. The "exclude" parameter that main takes in will be modified to take a list.  This list contains a list of tests to be skipped.

4. Update importlib/test/regrtest.py to call main() without doing sys.argv[] hacking.

5. The command line interface will remain unchanged.  If regrtest.py is called without the --exclude flag, the tests supplied on the command line will be interpreted as the tests to run.  If --exclude is supplied, the tests on the command line will be interpreted as the tests to _not_ run.

6. Switch regrtest.py to use argparse instead of optparse.

Do these look reasonable?

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