Allow test suite run via ‘python ./setup.py test’

[nedbat]

Originally reported by Ben Finney (Bitbucket: bignose, GitHub: bignose)

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Running the test suite under ‘tox’ is not feasible when the purpose of running tests is to test the installed package, not in a virtualenv.

Please allow the test suite to be run by ‘setup.py test’ from the distributed source tarball, which will allow the choice of what Python environment is used for running the tests.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/280

[nedbat]

Original comment by Ben Finney (Bitbucket: bignose, GitHub: bignose)

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The ‘setup.py test’ command is supported in current Setuptools and Distribute, see http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#test-build-package-and-run-a-unittest-suite

[nedbat]

setup.py test is no longer a preferred technique.