On May 17, 2014, at 4:34 AM, Mike Evans <mi...@saxicola.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2014 13:06 +0200 > Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote: > >> Do you have the python-test package installed ? Fedora has separated the >> test support from python-devel. I ran into this a few months back on >> Fedora 19 (20?) as well. >> >> Geert >> > Yes I do. > Package python-test-2.7.3-13.fc18.i686 already installed and latest version > > On My system: > > rpm -qi --whatprovides /usr/lib/python2.7/test/test_support.py > Name : python-libs > Version : 2.7.3 > Release : 13.fc18 > ... > > So test support is installed it seems. I can "import test" but there are no > modules in test. > > NB: Reading the Python docs at https://docs.python.org/2/library/test.html > The top of the page says: > > ''' > Note > > The test package is meant for internal use by Python only. It is documented > for the benefit of the core developers of Python. Any use of this package > outside of Python’s standard library is discouraged as code mentioned here > can change or be removed without notice between releases of Python. > ''' > ? You have to research in the appropriate historical context, which in this case would be Python 2.5: https://docs.python.org/2.5/lib/module-test.html doesn't have that note, and the way the code was written is correct for the time it was written (2008). Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't rewrite it in a more modern idiom, something like: import unittest import os os.environ["GNC_UNINSTALLED"] = "1" suite = unittest.TestLoader().discover('.') unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite) Your change works too, although it produces a rather sparse runTests.py.log and relies on explicitly importing all of the test modules. This allows adding tests simply by adding new test modules to the directory; one needn't remember to import them in runTests.py. While we're on the subject of runTests.py, we've got a configure substitution for the shebang. Is there some platform (MinGW maybe?) where `#!/usr/bin/env python` doesn't work? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
