[Biopython-dev] Deprecating Bio.ParserSupport, Bio.Blast.NCBIStandalone

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> [Michiel wrote:]
>> Still I would think that there is a better way to do this,
>> and I doubt that we are the first ones who want to access
>> test files with doctests. I can write a short message to
>> comp.lang.python to see have anybody has any suggestions.
>
> So I started writing a message to comp.lang.python, and while reading
> the doctest documentation to make my message understandable I
> realized that we can solve our problem by using the setUp and tearDown
> arguments to doctest.DocTestSuite. Then we put the test files in the same
> directory as the module we want to test, and use setUp/tearDown to let
> the unittest switch to this directory when needed.
>
> This has the added benefit that the example files are easier to find
> for users who want to try out a doctest example.
>
> Perhaps we'll still run into some issues if we try to implement this, but
> it seems a step in the right direction.

I don't follow what you are suggesting here. Are you suggesting putting
test files under Bio/* as well/instead or under Tests/* ?

Peter