[TIP] Selectively running test packages with nose

[Michael Foord]

On 07/04/2010 00:26, Gary Bernhardt wrote:
> With an old version of nose (probably 0.10), I happily did things like
> "nosetests mypackage.tests.unit" for years, where "unit" was a
> package. With 0.11.3, this doesn't work; it finds no tests.
>
> I also tried "nosetests mypackage/tests/unit". It finds the tests,
> runs them, and then fails ("No module named mypackage"). This
> perplexes me.
>
> What are you guys using to segregate test suites nowadays? Clearly,
> I've missed something.
>
>    

Hehe - well the next release of unittest2 (due tonight or tomorrow) will 
allow test discovery by dotted package name. The following should work:

unit2 discover mypackage.tests.unit

All the best,

Michael

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