[SciPy-Dev] reading a module under test

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:01 PM, nicky van foreest <vanforeest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to run a test on some code in my local branch of scipy.
> Now the problem in one of the test files is that it says
>
> from scipy import stats
>
> Now this reads the standard stats module, not the one I want to test,
> i.e, the one on my local branch. I changed the pythonpath, but this
> does not help.

I do an in-place build:

  $ python setup.py build_src --inplace build_ext --inplace

Then add the source directory to the $PYTHONPATH. Remove your
installation in site-packages.

-- 
Robert Kern