Re: unittest: Improve discoverability of discover

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: unittest: Improve discoverability of discover
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Date	2012-07-16 22:45 +1000
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Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> writes:

> On 07/16/2012 01:47 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
> > http://docs.python.org/library/unittest#test-discovery
>
> That's precisely it. Can we improve the discoverability of the discover
> option

Having it prominently in the documentation for the ‘unittest’ module is
already pretty discoverable, IMO.

> for example by making it the default action, or including a message
> "use discover to find test files automatically" if there are no
> arguments?

Well, “we” includes you; feel free to make a patch to that effect and
submit a bug report requesting it, if you think it's needed
<URL:http://bugs.python.org/>.

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Initial nose experience Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-13 08:42 -0400
  Re: Initial nose experience python@bdurham.com - 2012-07-15 14:02 -0400
    Re: Initial nose experience Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-15 14:58 -0400
      Re: Initial nose experience Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-16 12:54 +0200
      Re: Initial nose experience Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-16 13:47 +0200
      unittest: Improve discoverability of discover (Was: Initial nose experience) Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-16 14:37 +0200
        Re: unittest: Improve discoverability of discover Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-16 22:45 +1000
      Re: unittest: Improve discoverability of discover (Was: Initial nose experience) Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-16 14:49 +0200
    Re: Initial nose experience Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-16 07:33 -0400
      Re: Initial nose experience Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-16 22:37 +1000
  Re: Initial nose experience Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-23 10:33 -0700
  Re: Initial nose experience Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-27 10:51 -0400

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