[Distutils] proper use of use_2to3 with Distribute's test
Chris Jerdonek
chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 04:17:04 CEST 2012
I have a question regarding the proper use of the use_2to3 feature of
Distribute's test, as described here:
[1] http://packages.python.org/distribute/python3.html#distribute-as-help-during-porting
My tests run correctly under Python 2.7 when running the following:
python setup.py test
However, when I switch to Python 3, I get a syntax error when running
this command. The syntax error occurs in a module in a subdirectory
of my working directory called "tests". Modules in this directory
don't seem to be converted to Python 3 when using the "use_2to3"
keyword argument.
When I manually convert everything to Python 3 using the following, I
am able to run unit tests without that same syntax error:
2to3 --write --nobackups --no-diffs .
What is the proper way to tell setup() which files to convert to
Python 3? Below is the relevant portion of my call to setup():
setup(name='pystache',
...
packages=['pystache'],
test_suite = 'tests',
)
It might be worth expanding the documentation in the link [1] above
with the additional information that an answer to my question will
provide.
Thanks,
--Chris
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