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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:19:25 +0000
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On 14/11/2013 19:12, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> 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
>
http://docs.python.org/devguide/

TJG