[Python-ideas] Adding zope.testrunner test selections to unittest

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:41:33 -0400
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> (Maybe this should better go to the TIP mailing list?)
> 
> One of the last things from zope.testrunner that I really rely on is its
> highly flexible support for test selection:
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.testrunner/4.4.0#test-selection

That doesn't sound very usable to me. Why are there multiple options
for the same thing? I'd like to specify tests by name or pattern
regardless of whether the matched thing is a package, module, class or
method.

Regards

Antoine.