[New-bugs-announce] [issue14861] (Patch included) Make ./python -m test work to run test suite in Python 2.7

[Marc Abramowitz]

New submission from Marc Abramowitz <msabramo at gmail.com>:

Currently, the devguide (http://docs.python.org/devguide/) mentions two sets of commands for running the CPython test suite:

* For Python 3, one uses: ./python -m test

* For Python 2.7, one must use: ./python -m test.regrtest because ./python -m test fails with an error:No module named test.__main__; 'test' is a package and cannot be directly executed

If you take these two variations and multiply by the 3 variations of "python" command required depending on the OS (Windows, OS X, or other), then there are 6 permutations. I would say that this doesn't exactly encourage newcomers to CPython to contribute.

To take away a bit of the complexity, I have an extremely simple patch that adds one two line file to make ./python -m test work on 2.7.

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components: Tests
files: python2.7_test.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 161180
nosy: Marc.Abramowitz
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: (Patch included) Make ./python -m test work to run test suite in Python 2.7
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25648/python2.7_test.patch

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