How to run unittest discover from “python setup.py test”?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to get python setup.py test to run the equivalent of python -m unittest discover. I don\'t want to use a run_tests.p

Answer 1

Another less than ideal solution slightly inspired by http://hg.python.org/unittest2/file/2b6411b9a838/unittest2/collector.py

Add a module that returns a TestSuite of discovered tests. Then configure setup to call that module.

project/
  package/
    __init__.py
    module.py
  tests/
    __init__.py
    test_module.py
  discover_tests.py
  setup.py

Here's discover_tests.py:

import os
import sys
import unittest

def additional_tests():
    setup_file = sys.modules['__main__'].__file__
    setup_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(setup_file))
    return unittest.defaultTestLoader.discover(setup_dir)

And here's setup.py:

try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

config = {
    'name': 'name',
    'version': 'version',
    'url': 'http://example.com',
    'test_suite': 'discover_tests',
}

setup(**config)