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From: "Russell E. Owen" <rowen@uw.edu>
Subject: Running python's own unit tests?
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:12:09 -0800
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I'm building python from source and trying to figure out how to test the 
result. I must be overlooking something obvious, but I looked through 
the documentation and source and tried some google searches (which turn 
up plenty about writing unit tests in python, but nothing about testing 
a python distribution).

Any hints?

-- Russell