distutils, sdist and tests

[Robert Kern]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> How do I get distutils to include my testing module in just the "sdist" 
> distribution?

Use a MANIFEST.

  http://docs.python.org/dist/source-dist.html

> I want test_argparse.py to be available in the source distribution, but 
> I don't think it should be included in the binary distributions.
> 
> Or am I just being to picky?  Do folks normally include their tests in 
> the binary distributions?

Some do, but only when they are packages and can thus hide.the.tests .

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco