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Re:An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages by jononor on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:48AM (#40935002)
Ah, right you are. Yeah, then packages really should not ship such directories.

The practice of having tests inside the package being tested I remember as being discouraged, because it makes it hard to run one version of tests against another of the package. Which I guess can be useful for regression testing, though I have not really used it. An alternative layout that would preserve that be a mypackage_tests top-level.

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Re:An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages by formerly_proven on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:52AM (#40935019)
That's another good option, though I guess yodafying that (tests_mypackage) would have the added benefit that downstream consumers don't get mypackage_tests as an autocomplete suggestion.
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