Message 262429 - Python tracker

Message262429

Author	vstinner
Recipients	brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan, vstinner
Date	2016-03-25.12:00:35
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Message-id	<1458907235.84.0.937791906936.issue26641@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The PEP 420 -- Implicit Namespace Packages introduces packages which have no __init__.py file and can be made of multiple packages. It looks like doctest doesn't support them. I would like to convert the Lib/test/ of the Python standard library into such package for the issue #26295. I propose to use an heuristic when the package is only made of one directory (when module.__path__ only contains one entry): use this directory to lookup for requested test files. Attached patch implements that.

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The PEP 420 -- Implicit Namespace Packages introduces packages which have no __init__.py file and can be made of multiple packages. It looks like doctest doesn't support them.

I would like to convert the Lib/test/ of the Python standard library into such package for the issue #26295.

I propose to use an heuristic when the package is only made of one directory (when module.__path__ only contains one entry): use this directory to lookup for requested test files.

Attached patch implements that.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-03-25 12:00:35	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, eric.snow
2016-03-25 12:00:35	vstinner	set	messageid: <1458907235.84.0.937791906936.issue26641@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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