I'm not sure I'm organizing my package structure correctly or am using the right options in setup.py because I'm getting errors when I try to run unit tests.
I have a structure like this:
/project
/bin
/src
/pkgname
__init__.py
module1.py
module2.py
/tests
__init__.py
test1.py
test2.py
My setup.py looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
setup(version='0.1',
description='Trend following library',
author='Nate Reed',
author_email='nate@natereed.com',
packages=find_packages(),
install_requires=['numpy'],
test_suite="tests",
)
When I run 'python setup.py test' I get:
nate@nate-desktop:~/PycharmProjects/trendfollowing$ sudo python setup.py test
running test
running egg_info
writing requirements to UNKNOWN.egg-info/requires.txt
writing UNKNOWN.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to UNKNOWN.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to UNKNOWN.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'UNKNOWN.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'UNKNOWN.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
test_suite="tests",
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 137, in run
self.with_project_on_sys_path(self.run_tests)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 117, in with_project_on_sys_path
func()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 146, in run_tests
testLoader = loader_class()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 816, in __init__
self.parseArgs(argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 843, in parseArgs
self.createTests()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 849, in createTests
self.module)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 613, in loadTestsFromNames
suites = [self.loadTestsFromName(name, module) for name in names]
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 587, in loadTestsFromName
return self.loadTestsFromModule(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools/command/test.py", line 34, in loadTestsFromModule
tests.append(self.loadTestsFromName(submodule))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 584, in loadTestsFromName
parent, obj = obj, getattr(obj, part)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'test1'
Do the test names need to match module names? Are there other conventions I need to follow in my package structure?
Through some trial and error, I found the cause of this problem. Test names should match module names. If there is a "foo_test.py" test, there needs to be a corresponding module foo.py.
I found some guidelines on organizing package structure, which helped me reorganize my package into a structure I was confident in.
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