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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index c49aba6..38bad94 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -340,28 +340,21 @@ Test modules and packages can customize test loading and discovery by through the `load_tests protocol`_. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 - Test discovery supports :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>` - for the start directory. Note that you need to specify the top level - directory too (e.g. - ``python -m unittest discover -s root/namespace -t root``). + Test discovery supports :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>`. .. versionchanged:: 3.11 - :mod:`unittest` dropped the :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>` - support in Python 3.11. It has been broken since Python 3.7. Start directory and - subdirectories containing tests must be regular package that have - ``__init__.py`` file. + Test discovery dropped the :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>` + support. It has been broken since Python 3.7. + Start directory and its subdirectories containing tests must be regular + package that have ``__init__.py`` file. - Directories containing start directory still can be a namespace package. - In this case, you need to specify start directory as dotted package name, - and target directory explicitly. For example:: + If the start directory is the dotted name of the package, the ancestor packages + can be namespace packages. - # proj/ <-- current directory - # namespace/ - # mypkg/ - # __init__.py - # test_mypkg.py - - python -m unittest discover -s namespace.mypkg -t . +.. versionchanged:: 3.14 + Test discovery supports :term:`namespace package` as start directory again. + To avoid scanning directories unrelated to Python, + tests are not searched in subdirectories that do not contain ``__init__.py``. .. _organizing-tests: @@ -1915,10 +1908,8 @@ Loading and running tests Modules that raise :exc:`SkipTest` on import are recorded as skips, not errors. - .. versionchanged:: 3.4 *start_dir* can be a :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>`. - .. versionchanged:: 3.4 Paths are sorted before being imported so that execution order is the same even if the underlying file system's ordering is not dependent on file name. @@ -1930,11 +1921,13 @@ Loading and running tests .. versionchanged:: 3.11 *start_dir* can not be a :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>`. - It has been broken since Python 3.7 and Python 3.11 officially remove it. + It has been broken since Python 3.7, and Python 3.11 officially removes it. .. versionchanged:: 3.13 *top_level_dir* is only stored for the duration of *discover* call. + .. versionchanged:: 3.14 + *start_dir* can once again be a :term:`namespace package`. The following attributes of a :class:`TestLoader` can be configured either by subclassing or assignment on an instance: |