[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'17 candidate - Interested in Nose to Pytest Migration.

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
wrote:

>> >> Test discovery was the main reason we started using nose over plain
unittest. At that time (and incidentally, when nose and pytest began),
`python -m unittest discover` didn't exist.
>> >
>> > As Josef said, "import scipy; scipy.test()" must work (always useful,
but especially important on Windows).
>>
>> Okay. And?
>
> No and, just pointing out that `python -m unittest discover` doesn't cut
it.

Ah, I see. When I wrote that, I didn't mean that we'd type in `python -m
unittest discover` all the time. I was just referring to modern unittest's
builtin test discovery functionality, which makes it a feasible tool to
underlie `scipy.test()`. If that had existed at the time, we likely
wouldn't have rewritten `scipy.test()` to use nose.

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Robert Kern
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