Nick Coghlan added the comment: Discoverability is definitely a problem - part of that is a docs issue, since test.support is currently the only one mentioned in the prose docs.
One advantage to moving to a support subpackage is that we can lose the "helper" suffix from the names, while still allowing thematic divisions. So, for example, we could have # support.py -> support/__init__.py import test.support # script_helper.py -> support/scripts.py import test.support.scripts # Other possible additions import test.support.imports import test.support.network Even without updating the prose docs, this would help discoverability a lot by having a much smaller directory listing to scan for useful support code. At the moment the general purpose helper modules are mixed in with the tests I agree with Antoine that we're probably better off handling this as a refactor post-release at this point, though. I'd hoped to have the time to devote to it beforehand, but there's user facing stuff that's higher priority right now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15403> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
