[py-dev] Newbie with couple of questions

[Maciek Fijalkowski]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> I'm looking seriously at py.test for my testing needs. Couple of questions:
>   
Nice :)
> - Is there a "Users" list somewhere? (I wouldn't want to clog up a dev list 
> with lots of messages like this one.)
>   
Nope, but there is #pylib IRC channel on freenode. You're welcome to 
send posts here.
> - Can test_ files be kept in a subdirectory of the project (i.e. keep tests in 
> /projects/myproj/tests rather than in /projects/myproj)?
>   
Yes, they could be in any subdirectory of place where you execute 
py.test (even path would be right). In pylib itself tests are usually in 
testing subdirectory of each directory.
> - Is there a mechanism for detecting messages (in similar manner to detecting 
> exceptions) when using a publish-subscribe scheme to decouple the MVC pieces 
> in an application? Specifically I'm using lib.pubsub from wxPython.
>   
There is no such mechanism. Although I think that it's quite easy to 
create one (even in your project directory using conftest.py magic)


Cheers,
Fijal