[pypy-dev] Objects and types in the stdobjspace

[Rocco Moretti]

holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> wrote:

>Btw, I don't like the duplicated testsupport.py files. I think Rocco already 
>suggested to put one version into a fixed place which i agree too. 
>pypy.test.support seems like a canonical place. 

The one problem with that is if you are sitting 
in /norwegian/blue/pypy/interpreter/test, and '/norwegian/blue/' isn't on 
your PYTHONPATH, you choke on trying to import pypy.test.support. One of 
the main reasons (that I see, at least) for testsupport is that by doing a 
relative 'import testsupport', it automagically massages your PYTHONPATH 
such that 'from pypy...' imports work. But I agree that it probably should 
be pared down to a stub, and it looks like someone (mwh?) has already 
started that by moving a bunch of code to testtools.py

My suggestion was to move all the other files for general test support 
(unittest_w.py, testtools.py etc) to a single directory, to leave the main 
directory and the interpreter directory relatively uncluttered.

>Filename completions
>on "te<tab>" should result in "test_" :-) 

Could we rename it 'support_tests.py'?

-Rocco

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