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| author | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2010-07-23 11:31:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2010-07-23 11:31:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 3a4e50cb7e4646b046f98e67f749cdcfecf7d75a (patch) | |
| tree | 8acc6f0bd94fe4a450ce5b922ea34542f457b306 | |
| parent | 102d11a6d6f972c5d9071f0c9a13204040ec39c8 (diff) | |
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Document the fact that the 'test' package is meant only for use by Python
itself and not by others.
Closes issue 9255.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/test.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/test.rst b/Doc/library/test.rst index 3b9ad10..d6ff734 100644 --- a/Doc/library/test.rst +++ b/Doc/library/test.rst @@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ :synopsis: Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python. .. sectionauthor:: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> +.. note:: + The :mod:`test` package is meant for internal use by Python only. It is + documented for the benefit of the core developers of Python. Any use of + this package outside of Python's standard library is discouraged as code + mentioned here can change or be removed without notice between releases of + Python. + The :mod:`test` package contains all regression tests for Python as well as the modules :mod:`test.support` and :mod:`test.regrtest`. @@ -1655,6 +1655,9 @@ Build Documentation ------------ +- Issue 9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use + only. + - A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory. |