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[Python-Dev] built-in Python test runner (was: Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Mar 5 20:49:00 CET 2013 
On Mar 05, 2013, at 02:11 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>Doesn't setuptools/distribute already have a setup.py test command? That
>seems like the easiest way forward? 

Yes, and in theory it can make `python setup.py test` work well.  But there
are lots of little details (such as API differences for ensuring that doctests
run, "additional tests" discovery, etc.) that make this often not work so well
in practice.  Some of that is social and some of it is technical.  I still
claim that including test suite information in a package's metadata would be a
win, but maybe that's just too much to hope for right now.

-Barry
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