anatoly techtonik wrote: > I mean that usually testing tools/libraries are separated from tests > itself, as well as data. test_support.py is not only located in the > same directory - it is even named in the same way. The test directory > looks like a mess with all these aux data files. But it is hard to > estimate if it would be worthy to separate testing framework from > tests and test data. It may happen that writing and debugging tests > become harder, because Python is not locked into some specific usage > domain.
Tests start with test_*, the support files don't. The only odd one out was test_support, and that has been fixed for 3.x. The generalised test frameworks (unittest, doctest) do live in the standard library. It's only the stuff specific to *our* unit tests that lives in the test directory (and certainly, things from that directory will sometimes get generalised and moved to the standard library - that's how warning.catch_warnings was created). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
