[SciPy-Dev] Tests not running for scipy.constants?

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 5/22/2011 5:51 PM, josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Warren Weckesser
> <warren.weckesser at enthought.com>  wrote:
>> It appears that the tests for scipy.constants are not running.  Here's what
>> I get with trunk:
>>
>> $ python -c "import scipy.constants; scipy.constants.test('full')"
>> Running unit tests for scipy.constants
>> NumPy version 1.5.1
>> NumPy is installed in
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy
>> SciPy version 0.10.0.dev
>> SciPy is installed in
>> /Users/warren/local_tmp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy
>> Python version 2.7.1 |EPD 7.0-1 (32-bit)| (r271:86832, Dec  3 2010,
>> 15:41:32) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)]
>> nose version 1.0.0
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ran 0 tests in 0.000s
>>
>> OK
>>
>> I get the same with 0.9.0rc2, so the problem may have been around for
>> awhile.
>>
>> The tests for other packages run as expected, and if I run nosetests in the
>> constants/tests directory, the test run:
>>
>> $ nosetests
>> ..............
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ran 14 tests in 0.451s
>>
>> OK
>>
>>
>> Does anyone else see this?
>
> Same here with 0.9, but I have no idea what might be going on, looks
> the same as other subpackages. (Is "constants" are reserved word
> somewhere?)
>
> Josef
>
>>
>> Warren
>>
>>

On my system the scipy\constants\tests directory is not installed. Seems 
there is a `config.add_data_dir('tests')` missing in 
scipy\constants\setup.py.

Christoph