• R David Murray's avatar
    #14533: if a test has no test_main, use loadTestsFromModule. · 78fc25c7
    R David Murray authored
    This moves us further in the direction of using normal unittest facilities
    instead of specialized regrtest ones.  Any test module that can be correctly
    run currently using 'python unittest -m test.test_xxx' can now be converted to
    use normal unittest test loading by simply deleting its test_main, thus no
    longer requiring manual maintenance of the list of tests to run.  (Not all
    tests can be converted that easily, since test_main sometimes does some
    additional things (such as reap_children or reap_threads).  In those cases the
    extra code may be moved to setUpModule/tearDownModule methods, or perhaps the
    same ends can be achieved in a different way, such as moving the decorators to
    the test classes that need them, etc.)
    
    I don't advocate going through and making this change wholesale, but any time
    a list of tests in test_main would otherwise need to be updated, consideration
    should instead be given to deleting test_main.
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