[SciPy-user] Running scipy.test on recent SVN build

[Robert Kern]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Joshua Lippai <discerptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  Last night I tried installing scipy (on OS X 10.5.2) and I was
>  surprised to find that nose is now required to run scipy.test. I
>  installed it successfully through easy_install, but now it still won't
>  run the test, instead producing the following error:
>
>  >>> scipy.test(1,10)
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/testing/nosetester.py",
>  line 115, in test
>     argv = self._test_argv(label, verbose, extra_argv)
>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/testing/nosetester.py",
>  line 98, in _test_argv
>     raise TypeError, 'Selection label should be a string'
>  TypeError: Selection label should be a string
>
>  Has anyone experienced this as well or now what's going on and how to
>  fix it so I can run scipy.test? Much thanks in advance.

In [6]: scipy.test?







Type:           instancemethod
Base Class:     <type 'instancemethod'>
String Form:    <bound method NoseTester.test of
<scipy.testing.nosetester.NoseTester object at 0x1b
2d930>>
Namespace:      Interactive
File:           /Users/rkern/svn/scipy/scipy/testing/nosetester.py
Definition:     scipy.test(self, label='fast', verbose=1,
extra_argv=None, doctests=False)
Docstring:
    Run tests for module using nose

    Parameters
    ----------
    label : {'fast', 'full', '', attribute identifer}
        Identifies test to run.  This can be a string to pass to
        the nosetests executable with the'-A' option, or one of
        several special values.
        Special values are:
        'fast' - the default - which corresponds to
            nosetests -A option of
            'not slow'.
        'full' - fast (as above) and slow test as in
            no -A option to nosetests - same as ''
        None or '' - run all tests
        attribute_identifier - string passed directly to
            nosetests as '-A'
    verbose : integer
        verbosity value for test outputs, 1-10
    extra_argv : list
        List with any extra args to pass to nosetests
    doctests : boolean
        If True, run doctests in module, default False

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
 -- Umberto Eco