Issue #19013: add a __main__ to unittest.test to ease CLI invocation

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/test/__main__.py b/Lib/unittest/test/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44d0591
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+++ b/Lib/unittest/test/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import os
+import unittest
+
+
+def load_tests(loader, standard_tests, pattern):
+    # top level directory cached on loader instance
+    this_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+    pattern = pattern or "test_*.py"
+    # We are inside unittest.test, so the top-level is two notches up
+    top_level_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(this_dir))
+    package_tests = loader.discover(start_dir=this_dir, pattern=pattern,
+                                    top_level_dir=top_level_dir)
+    standard_tests.addTests(package_tests)
+    return standard_tests
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()