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diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index 9ec4e7c..f2c1a92 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ __all__ = [
"skip_unless_symlink", "requires_gzip", "requires_bz2", "requires_lzma",
"bigmemtest", "bigaddrspacetest", "cpython_only", "get_attribute",
"requires_IEEE_754", "skip_unless_xattr", "requires_zlib",
- "anticipate_failure",
+ "anticipate_failure", "load_package_tests",
# sys
"is_jython", "check_impl_detail",
# network
@@ -188,6 +188,25 @@ def anticipate_failure(condition):
return unittest.expectedFailure
return lambda f: f
+def load_package_tests(pkg_dir, loader, standard_tests, pattern):
+ """Generic load_tests implementation for simple test packages.
+
+ Most packages can implement load_tests using this function as follows:
+
+ def load_tests(*args):
+ return load_package_tests(os.path.dirname(__file__), *args)
+ """
+ if pattern is None:
+ pattern = "test*"
+ top_dir = os.path.dirname( # Lib
+ os.path.dirname( # test
+ os.path.dirname(__file__))) # support
+ package_tests = loader.discover(start_dir=pkg_dir,
+ top_level_dir=top_dir,
+ pattern=pattern)
+ standard_tests.addTests(package_tests)
+ return standard_tests
+
def import_fresh_module(name, fresh=(), blocked=(), deprecated=False):
"""Import and return a module, deliberately bypassing sys.modules.