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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:51:04 -0500
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mar 04, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 
> >> And One True Way of invoking and/or discovering how to invoke, a package's
> >> test suite.
> >
> >How does unittest's test discovery not solve that?
> 
> I should have added "from the command line".  E.g. is it:
> 
> $ python -m unittest discover
> $ python setup.py test
> $ python setup.py nosetests
> $ python -m nose test
> $ nosetests-X.Y
> 
> Besides having a multitude of choices, there's almost no way to automatically
> discover (e.g. by metadata inspection or some such) how to invoke the tests.
> You're often lucky if there's a README.test and it's still accurate.

I hope we can have a "pytest" utility that does the right thing in
3.4 :-)
Typing "python -m unittest discover" is too cumbersome.

Regards

Antoine.