[Grok-dev] Re: Easier test setup with new grok.testing

[Martijn Faassen]

Uli Fouquet wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>>> import grok.testing
>>> test_suite = grok.grok_tests('cave')
>> This would indeed be nice.
> 
> No problem. @Luciano: I assume grok.grok_doctests() will be an alias for
> grok.testing.grok_doctests() then. So you can use the namespace.

Oh, just to be clear: I think all this stuff should only be in the 
'grok.testing' namespace, not in the 'grok' namespace.

[snip]
>> Ideas? It might be nice if we could state what globs we want to use in 
>> the doctest itself. That makes me think we could simply import them:
>>
>>    >>> from mypackage.tests import myhelper
>>
>> That might be actually clearer than the use of globs as it doesn't 
>> introduce any special casing at all. Any reason why this wouldn't work?
> 
> I'm not sure, whether I understand correctly. Are you talking about
> avoiding `globs` at all (at test registration time)?

Yes, I was assuming (wrongly) there was no way to pass in globs, and 
thinking about alternatives. I figured Python imports are one. :)

Regards,

Martijn