tox (https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) is a popular package that is used by a large number of Python projects as the standard entry point for testing and linting.
Sage 9.1 started to use tox for portability testing of the Sage distribution ( https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/portability_testing.html#automatic-docker-based-build-testing-using-tox), which requires an installation of tox in the system python. In several recent tickets, we have added a tox configuration (src/tox.ini) for the (more typical) use of tox for testing and linting of the Sage library. (See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30453 and dependencies.) This provides an entry point for various testing/linting methods that is more idiomatic from the viewpoint of the Python community. 1. The commands "sage -t", "sage -coverage", "sage -coverageall", and "sage -startuptime" are repackaged as "sage --tox" follows: --tox [options] <files|dirs> -- general entry point for testing and linting of the Sage library -e <envlist> -- run specific test environments (default: run all) doctest -- run the Sage doctester (same as "sage -t") coverage -- give information about doctest coverage of files (same as "sage --coverage[all]") startuptime -- display how long each component of Sage takes to start up (same as "sage --startuptime") 2. Three new linting methods are added: pycodestyle -- check against the Python style conventions of PEP8 relint -- check whether some forbidden patterns appear (includes all patchbot pattern-exclusion plugins) codespell -- check for misspelled words in source code This functionality is available after installing the optional "tox" package using "sage -i tox" (or having tox available in the system). I propose to make "tox" a standard package of the Sage distribution so that this functionality becomes available by default. By convention, this requires a vote here on sage-devel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/aea49c5b-fca9-4195-a890-f5ed7613af0bo%40googlegroups.com.
