[SciPy-User] Pylab - standard packages

[Travis Oliphant]

nose is a dependency of NumPy, so it is on the list by default, I would think.

-Travis

On Sep 24, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23 September 2012 14:41, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> At least `nose`, we have to be able to run tests for packages.
>> 
>> We do, but for new users, unit testing is something they're unlikely
>> to need for a while. Installing nose also doesn't involve any complex
>> requirements. So I'd be inclined not to specify it, but I'd like to
>> hear what others think.
> 
> IMHO nose should absolutely be on the list. The first thing I teach
> people is the boilerplate to put at the bottom of their modules:
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>    import nose
>    nose.runmodule()
> 
> And the target audience isn't just brand new users anyway. Sample code
> should contain tests, so it's helpful to have a convention for how
> they're named and how you write assertions, and both of these come
> from nose as the de facto standard.
> 
> -n
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