[Python-Dev] PEP 414

[Simon Cross]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Armin Ronacher
<armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote:
> Agile development and unittests.  An installation hook means that you
> need to install the package before running the tests.  Which is fine for
> CI but horrible during development.  "python3 run-tests.py" beats "make
> venv; install library; run testsuite" anytime in terms of development speed.

"python3 setup.py test" works already with 2to3 (it builds the code
and runs the tests under build/). It is however slow and it can be a
bit annoying to have to debug things by looking at the generated code
under build/lib.linux-i686-3.2/ (or similar).