[py-dev] Newbie with couple of questions

[holger krekel]

Hi Michael!

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 20:01 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I'm looking seriously at py.test for my testing needs. Couple of questions:
> 
> - Is there a "Users" list somewhere? (I wouldn't want to clog up a dev list 
> with lots of messages like this one.)

it's fine to use py-dev for it!
 
> - 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, but make sure that tests/ has an (empty) __init__.py file. 

> - 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.

I don't know this particular one.  You may extend py.test with
a conftest.py file (see py/doc/impl-test.txt for info on how
to get started on this). 

best, 

holger