On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2:41:51 PM UTC-4, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > ----------------------------- > On Tue, May 12, 2015 8:01 PM CEST Rob Gaddi wrote: > > >So I've got a package I put up on PyPi a while back (ctypes-bitfield, if > >it matters). For version 0.2.6 I had access to some older versions of > >Python and was able to run my test suite on Python 2.6 and 3.0. > > > >Well, I don't have them anymore. I've got no access right now to > >anything older than 2.7 and 3.2, and my primary development environment > >is 3.4. But I've also updated the package to support what I consider to > >be some really nice new functionality. So, it comes down to two > >questions: > > > >A) Is there any easy way to test against an older version of Python? > >Preferably without trying to install entire old environments and keep > >them nicely isolated from my actual doing work? I'm running Ubuntu for > >what difference that makes. > > I use tox, it's available on pypi. Works with virtualenv. There's also detox, > which runs your unittests in parellel, but I have not used that.
Oh, yes, use tox. I should have clarified: I use pythonz to install different versions of Python, then tox to run my test suite against a variety of those versions. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
