[Python-ideas] Official site-packages/test directory

[Guido van Rossum]

IIUC another common layout is to have folders named test or tests inside
each package. This would avoid requiring any changes to the site-packages
layout.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if we could get an official site-packages/test directory.
> Currently
> it seems to be problematic to distribute tests if they are outside the
> package
> directory.  Here is a nice overview of the two main layout possibilities:
>
> http://pytest.readthedocs.io/en/reorganize-docs/new-docs/
> user/directory_structure.html
>
>
> I like the outside-the-package approach, mostly for reasons described very
> eloquently here:
>
> http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/
> latest/python_concepts/import_traps.html
>
>
> CPython itself of course also uses Lib/foo.py and Lib/test/test_foo.py, so
> it
> would make sense to have site-packages/foo.py and
> site-packages/test/test_foo.py.
>
> For me, this is the natural layout.
>
>
>
> Stefan Krah
>
>
>
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