[Python-Dev] on Python's tests (and making them better)

[Georg Brandl]

Guilherme Polo schrieb:
> 2008/6/6 Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com>:
>>
>>
>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How does 1 directory scale when one day you have possibly thousands of
>>>> tests?
>>>
>>> I find this a theoretical question. It took 18 years to arrive at 500
>>> test files. Assuming a linear growth, we get 1000 tests in 2025, and
>>> 2000 tests in 2060. People can worry about reorganizing them then.
>>
>> Personally I'd like to see packages have their own test directory.  This
>> keeps things related to each other together.  Top level modules of course
>> would have their tests in the top level test directory as they are now.
>>
> 
> I really dislike having a test directory inside a python package. You
> have my -1 on that idea.

I'm also not in favor of this, especially since you still need a wrapper
in Lib/test to make them execute.

However, I can understand package maintainers wanting "everything in one
place".

Georg


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