One thing that has bothered me about distutils is its lack of a "test" command -- it seems strange to me that setuptools has it but distutils does not...

Anyway I looked around to make sure it really wasn't there (I couldn't believe it at first), but finally, convinced, I wrote my own.

What's cool about this:

• it's extensible -- designed from the start to allow for many different style tests (using different testing libraries)
• includes 2 test types:
  • unittest
  • py.test (degrades gracefully to unittest if the py module is not present)

Here's the code used to add unittest support:

def validate_unittest(tester):
    if tester.test_suite is None:
        if tester.test_modules is None:
            raise DistutilsOptionError(
                "You must specify a module or a suite"
            )
        tester.test_suite = self.test_module+".test_suite"
    elif tester.test_module:
        raise DistutilsOptionError(
            "You may specify a module or a suite, but not both"
        )

@test.add_type('unittest', options=(
        ('test-module=','m', "Run 'test_suite' in specified module"),
        ('test-suite=','s',
            "Test suite to run (e.g. 'some_module.test_suite')"),
    ), validate=validate_unittest)
def run_unittest(tester):
    import unittest
    unittest.main(
        None, None, [unittest.__file__, tester.test_suite],
        testLoader = unittest.TestLoader()
    )

Anyway, I'm calling it "disttest"...

I don't know whether to put it up on pypi or what...it would kindof be a drag to have to install another package in order to run tests...

Then again, it is only one file, so it's feasible to just package it in w/ your other code (grab the file here). That's what I've done with codetalker...

Thoughts? Suggestions? Complaints?