[TIP] Installation issue with coverage and setuptools

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 02:32:35PM +0100, Christoph Buchner wrote:
> Thank you! It was not clear to me that setup.py test does not do all
> installation steps, I thought this was just a local (but full)
> installation of tests requirements.

Let me once again recommend tox, which automates

  - building a source distribution
  - installing it into a local virtualenv (so your system Python stays
    clean from your dependencies)
  - running the tests against that installation

In addition tox can run your tests for multiple Python versions (in
parallel, if you use the 'detox' runner).

'tox' is the best thing that has happened to Python testing in the 21st
century.

Marius Gedminas
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