[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 04, 2013, at 07:26 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> >It is of course possible for subunit and related tools to run their
>> >own implementation, but it seems ideal to me to have a common API
>> >which regular unittest, nose, py.test and others can all agree on and
>> >use : better reuse for pretty printers, GUI displays and the like
>> >depend on some common API.
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>> And One True Way of invoking and/or discovering how to invoke, a package's
>> test suite.
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> How does unittest's test discovery not solve that?

It is not always obvious how to test a package when one is not
familiar with it. Are the tests in pkgname/tests or tests or ... ?

In the scientific community, we have used the convention of making the
test suite available at runtime with pkgname.tests().

David