[New-bugs-announce] [issue36723] Unittest Discovery for namespace subpackages dot notation fails

[Jonny Fuller]

New submission from Jonny Fuller <mr.waffles at gmail.com>:

Hi friends,

I noticed strange behavior involving unittest discovery with namespace packages. Using dot notation to discover test packages within a namespace package will fail, but will succeed when using path notation.

It feels awkward that dot path would fail but normal path would succeed. Is this the desired behavior?

I created a demo repo and fully documented this odd behavior here

https://github.com/JonnyWaffles/djangonamespacetestfail.

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messages: 340857
nosy: mrwaffles
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unittest Discovery for namespace subpackages dot notation fails
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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