On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> >> On Mar 04, 2013, at 07:26 PM, Robert Collins wrote: >> >> >It is of course possible for subunit and related tools to run their >> >own implementation, but it seems ideal to me to have a common API >> >which regular unittest, nose, py.test and others can all agree on and >> >use : better reuse for pretty printers, GUI displays and the like >> >depend on some common API. >> >> And One True Way of invoking and/or discovering how to invoke, a package's >> test suite. > > > How does unittest's test discovery not solve that?
It is not always obvious how to test a package when one is not familiar with it. Are the tests in pkgname/tests or tests or ... ? In the scientific community, we have used the convention of making the test suite available at runtime with pkgname.tests(). David _______________________________________________ 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
