Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <fomcl@yahoo.com>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.028
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'environments': 0.07; 'nicely': 0.07; 'pypi': 0.07; 'anymore.': 0.09; 'cest': 0.09; 'runs': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; '2.7': 0.14; '3.0.': 0.16; 'pypi.': 0.16; 'virtualenv.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'python?': 0.22; 'install': 0.23; 'header:Received:8': 0.24; 'versions': 0.24; 'environment': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'primary': 0.26; 'to:2**1': 0.27; 'to:no real name:2**1': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'that.': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'running': 0.33; 'older': 0.33; 'actual': 0.34; 'updated': 0.34; 'test': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; 'really': 0.36; '2.6': 0.36; 'ubuntu': 0.36; 'doing': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'so,': 0.37; 'skip:- 20': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'work?': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; '12,': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'easy': 0.60; 'received:98.137': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'entire': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'received:46': 0.66; 'received:gq1.yahoo.com': 0.68; 'received:mail.gq1.yahoo.com': 0.68; 'received:98.136': 0.69; '2015': 0.84; 'isolated': 0.84; 'received:bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com': 0.84
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-4
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 988305.89994.bm@omp1000.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1431455779; bh=U38Tt5kGEK1oJw9an442YXhaThHp8aFCWvB9+DZKLHw=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=w/jODGwdqySBz8M3t7xF4KqNzAzcJsNAcDiWfUcFXdBn4Jr7CY+9WT79MHz+fry/bTBrtHo73XUT/AQyitgxY4boDJJGpbeDT0dENJXzFU9kEjf94Jx3Mjkt3fdWiQqW+FE317YyrSjCeviebR4OQjpuiAygV+QAHj+9poDWIF8=
X-YMail-OSG: bgVkgbUVM1mIeN6MRppBqzaLXKtohGskxskPA.6lVHfEy40 HtTmpvCMiN0bFIMcLyR3QFZbYH8yhZxK6VV1tPu2DRSp1vF9vyXb7norRvnp sPCGmfTS_UlJNR_UvoEDMdrlCiepjWwJ_Fmvr1LF55jE5RfjIgnSbhKDC624 uwu47UA7UB88AVZcHvfEs5NfalIiHs1HV1aPNk7PSh65ypnTlfs3CBR97HkY tSqQIvFrhTjM5tTKmXsWlJBqKGzIUThdP7YzDsIImLRzerojLmQfnKtu7hfb VobyO9nF3wmY5MIPsEQ_fgSL2WZg9PwzGppwHKPe0_xscifOXAKJ0d.xdNM1 6OZ_1yK9v4.N_bbqbHr1WTi_.G1ucZEZKNtm3JJiox2a3nQ8cnLyMjjMT2MK 1pYv_R14rYaxs0WXZxtSBKIuoH1ahZ1FHHLtlsIeL47VU0Ai_GghN9g3F7CD iNfkOi1T6D4YA2hDI3ljXeaj9FKVTj1oHDETln9au4oxhM.dCp25vvIZ.QCD ZCR..lvq6Qr3ThaYMDehACqQ2jzgdTdr7zE3ssY78OMVdxXkC.7DgxCQw1Ls y
X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, Ci0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tDQpPbiBUdWUsIE1heSAxMiwgMjAxNSA4OjAxIFBNIENFU1QgUm9iIEdhZGRpIHdyb3RlOg0KDQo.U28gSSd2ZSBnb3QgYSBwYWNrYWdlIEkgcHV0IHVwIG9uIFB5UGkgYSB3aGlsZSBiYWNrIChjdHlwZXMtYml0ZmllbGQsIGlmIA0KPml0IG1hdHRlcnMpLiAgRm9yIHZlcnNpb24gMC4yLjYgSSBoYWQgYWNjZXNzIHRvIHNvbWUgb2xkZXIgdmVyc2lvbnMgb2YgDQo.UHl0aG9uIGFuZCB3YXMgYWJsZSB0byBydW4gbXkgdGVzdCBzdWl0ZSBvbiBQeXRob24gMi4BMAEBAQE-
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.203.740
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:36:19 -0700
From: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Updating a package on PyPi, testing and etiquette
To: rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid, python-list@python.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.409.1431456080.12865.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 21
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1431456080 news.xs4all.nl 2821 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47030
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90477


-----------------------------
On Tue, May 12, 2015 8:01 PM CEST Rob Gaddi wrote:

>So I've got a package I put up on PyPi a while back (ctypes-bitfield, if 
>it matters).  For version 0.2.6 I had access to some older versions of 
>Python and was able to run my test suite on Python 2.6 and 3.0.
>
>Well, I don't have them anymore.  I've got no access right now to 
>anything older than 2.7 and 3.2, and my primary development environment 
>is 3.4.  But I've also updated the package to support what I consider to 
>be some really nice new functionality.  So, it comes down to two 
>questions:
>
>A) Is there any easy way to test against an older version of Python?  
>Preferably without trying to install entire old environments and keep 
>them nicely isolated from my actual doing work?  I'm running Ubuntu for 
>what difference that makes.

I use tox, it's available on pypi. Works with virtualenv. There's also detox, which runs your unittests in parellel, but I have not used that.