Running python's own unit tests?

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/14/2013 2:12 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> I'm building python from source and trying to figure out how to test the
> result. I must be overlooking something obvious, but I looked through
> the documentation and source and tried some google searches (which turn
> up plenty about writing unit tests in python, but nothing about testing
> a python distribution).
>
> Any hints?

http://docs.python.org/3/library/test.html#running-tests-using-the-command-line-interface

Or 2.7 equivalent.

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Terry Jan Reedy