[Python-Dev] adding a "test" fork to a setup.py package

[Thomas Heller]

Barry Warsaw schrieb:
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> On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
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>> I'm packaging up the SSL support for Python 2.3, and I'd like to be
>> able to include the unit test for it along with the package.  Ideally,
>> I'd like to be able to say
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>>     % python setup.py build
>>     % python setup.py test
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>> and have the regrtest.py module run my tests.  Any ideas (examples) of
>> how to do that?
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> The email package does something like this by having most of the  
> tests in a subpackage of enum, with a shim in Lib/test for regrtest.   
> The standalone package has a testall script, but that should really  
> be converted to nosetests or some such.

ctypes does it in a similar way.  Tests are in the Lib/ctypes/test package.

Thomas