[Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Apr 24 05:34:17 CEST 2007


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On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Collin Winter wrote:

> Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing
> unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase.
>
> So: any objections to making this change?

Please use the absolute package name test.test_support.TestCase.   
Remember that some of the code in the stdlib is released externally  
to Python (e.g. the email package), so their test suites have to be  
runnable in that deployment mode.

- -Barry

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