Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Éric Araujo <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > I lack context: Why is being able to run “python -m tkinter” useful? The missing context is in issue 9384. I discovered that python -m tkinter did not work when I was looking for a simple way to demonstrate the tkinter pop-under bug. The demo code was already in the package but would not run using -m option. > Tests can be run directly or via regrtest, and I recall Guido saying that > using modules as scripts > was an anti-pattern to him, i.e. sometimes useful but not always necessary. I have not heard it from Guido, but I agree with one exception. If the module contains doctests, it is useful to have doctest run boilerplate in the file. While regrtest runs most of the existing doctests, it does not discover them and there is no option to run doctests separately from unit tests as far as I know. Note that tkinter._test() is not really a test, it is a tiny demo program. (I am changing the title accordingly.) I think exposing it as python -m tkinter would provide one obvious way for users to see if they have working tkinter and what its widgets look like. ---------- title: Make python -m tkinter run tkinter test -> Make python -m tkinter run tkinter demo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9387> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
