[issue10848] Move test.regrtest from getopt to argparse

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

I would say writing tests for regrtest is going to be a somewhat tricky task.  I think you will have to do some code tweaking to even be able to run certain tests.  I believe that regrtest currently has some built in assumptions about the test directory (ie: that it is Lib/test), even though the regrtest main program provides a testdir argument.  So the first task is probably going to be getting that argument to actually work, and then exposing a way to set it at the regrtest command level (or, alternatively, moving all command functionality out of __main__ and into main).  Once you have that, your test suite can programatically generate a test test-directory and populate it with whatever files you need for each test, using the utilities in test.script_helper.

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