[Python-ideas] Adding zope.testrunner test selections to unittest

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:41:33 -0400
> Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> > (Maybe this should better go to the TIP mailing list?)
> >
> > One of the last things from zope.testrunner that I really rely on is its
> > highly flexible support for test selection:
> >
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.testrunner/4.4.0#test-selection
>
> That doesn't sound very usable to me. Why are there multiple options
> for the same thing? I'd like to specify tests by name or pattern
> regardless of whether the matched thing is a package, module, class or
> method.
>

Agreed.  I'm +1 on the idea of more powerful easier to use test selection.
 NOT on zope.testrunner's interface.

-gps
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