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Sat Jun 7 02:40:15 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080129.html

2008/6/6 Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com>:
>
>
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>>
>>> How does 1 directory scale when one day you have possibly thousands of
>>> tests?
>>
>> I find this a theoretical question. It took 18 years to arrive at 500
>> test files. Assuming a linear growth, we get 1000 tests in 2025, and
>> 2000 tests in 2060. People can worry about reorganizing them then.
>
>
> Personally I'd like to see packages have their own test directory.  This
> keeps things related to each other together.  Top level modules of course
> would have their tests in the top level test directory as they are now.
>

I really dislike having a test directory inside a python package. You
have my -1 on that idea.

> I don't see any need to subdivide tests further than that.
>
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