[Biopython-dev] Changed in C API

Dragoslav Zaric zaricdragoslav at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 10:59:05 UTC 2010


Ok Peter,

I will work on this tonight and let you know how is it going,

Kind regards

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Dragoslav Zaric
> <zaricdragoslav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Peter,
>>
>> You write this:
>>
>> "What I suggest you do first, is make sure you can get
>> the latest Biopython source code from git, compile it
>> under Python 2, and run the unit tests. Then try 2to3
>> and running the tests under Python 3 (see the README
>> file)."
>>
>> Can you tell me how do I run unit tests in any python version ??
>
> Have a look at the "The Biopython testing framework"
> chapter in the tutorial (although this does not talk about
> Python 3).
>
> For python 2.x, from the Tests directory do:
>
> python run_tests.py
>
> For a particular version of Python, do:
>
> python2.6 run_tests.py
>
> For Python 3.x first convert the code with 2to3 as described
> in the README file, then:
>
> python3 run_tests.py
>
> For a particular version of Python 3, do:
>
> python3.1 run_tests.py
>
> You can run selected tests rather than all of them, e.g.
>
> python run_tests.py test_Motif.py
>
>>
>> Are there unit tests for C modules or these tests cover everything ??
>>
>
> The tests are all written in Python, and will test the C modules via
> their Python interface.
>
> Peter
>



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