Updating a package on PyPi, testing and etiquette

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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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.