Re: [matplotlib-devel] tests.py missing

[Matthew B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM,  <kei...@bt...> wrote:
> Thanks, but I didn't get it when I downloaded matplotlib-1.3.1.tar.gz.
>
> kbriggs:~/Downloads> tar tf matplotlib-1.3.1.tar.gz | grep tests.py
>
> Keith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ben...@gm... [ben...@gm...] On Behalf Of Benjamin Root [ben...@ou...]
> Sent: 25 June 2014 16:45
> To: Briggs,KM,Keith,TUB2 R
> Cc: matplotlib development list
> Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] tests.py missing
>
> It is right there in the root directory for the distribution:
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/v1.3.x
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:29 AM, <kei...@bt...<mailto:kei...@bt...>> wrote:
> README.rst in matplotlib-1.3.1 says:
>
>> After installation, you can launch the test suite::
>>
>> python tests.py
>
> but actually there is no tests.py anywhere in the distribution.

Actually, it would be very good to have the tests.py file somewhere
from a standard install - I had to hack round that for automated tests
of a pip tarball, for example, by downloading the test.py separately.

Cheers,

Matthew