Issue 26481: unittest discovery process not working without .py source files
Created on 2016-03-04 17:09 by stefan, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg261192 - (view) | Author: Stefan Seefeld (stefan) *  |
Date: 2016-03-04 17:09 | |
The unittest test discovery right now only looks into sub-packages if they contain a `__init__.py` file. That's an unnecessary requirement, as packages are also importable if only `__init__.pyc` is present. |
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| msg261707 - (view) | Author: Robert Collins (rbcollins) * |
Date: 2016-03-14 01:35 | |
Python has stopped supporting .pyc-only distributions - see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/#case-3-pycache-foo-magic-pyc-with-no-source - and so, while what you are seeing is inconsistent with import in some older python's, it is not a bug in newer Python's, and I don't see any benefit in doing a backport-only fix for it. |
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| msg261708 - (view) | Author: Robert Collins (rbcollins) * |
Date: 2016-03-14 01:38 | |
Sorry, I missed the little footnote on case 4 about still supporting source-less distributions. I guess in that context we do still need to support this. However - please check that this does indeed happen on Python master - 3.6. unittest does evolve and if you're testing on 2.7 or something your bug is perhaps already fixed. |
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| msg264363 - (view) | Author: Martin Panter (martin.panter) * |
Date: 2016-04-27 08:46 | |
Please see Issue 26859; I think it is describing the same problem, and a fix is proposed (although no regression test) |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:58:28 | admin | set | github: 70668 |
| 2016-04-27 08:46:50 | martin.panter | set | status: open -> closed nosy:
+ martin.panter superseder: unittest fails with "Start directory is not importable" when trying to run sourceless tests |
| 2016-03-14 01:38:47 | rbcollins | set | status: closed -> open resolution: not a bug -> (no value) messages: + msg261708 stage: resolved -> test needed |
| 2016-03-14 01:35:28 | rbcollins | set | status: open -> closed type: behavior messages: + msg261707 resolution: not a bug |
| 2016-03-06 02:27:45 | ned.deily | set | nosy:
+ rbcollins, ezio.melotti, michael.foord |
| 2016-03-04 17:09:32 | stefan | create | |