[New-bugs-announce] [issue30207] Rename test.test_support to test.support in 2.7

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

Proposed patch converts test.test_support into package and rename it to test.support, move test.script_helper into the test.support package.  Old names test.test_support and test.script_helper are left as aliases to test.support and test.support.script_helper for compatibility (hence most tests don't need modification).

Benefits of this change:

1. This makes the structure of the test directory more compatible with 3.x. This helps bacporting tests. There were a number of cases when the only required change in backported 2.7 patch was changing "support" to "test_support". Many times backporting simple tests broke 2.7 buildbots because this change was not made.

2. This makes easier backporting changes in test.support itself and backporting 3.x features from test.support.

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components: Tests
messages: 292590
nosy: ezio.melotti, michael.foord, ncoghlan, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Rename test.test_support to test.support in 2.7
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7

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