tests, test?

pypa/sampleproject and Python Packaging User Guide’s “Packaging Python Projects” page suggest the unit test folder be named tests. But by default, all files matching the pattern test/test*.py, not tests/test*.py, are included in the source distribution. Indeed, I renamed tests to test in sampleproject, then python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel will create a dist package that includes test/test*.py.

Or, did sampleproject intentionally change the name to avoid sdist’s inclusion of the test files? That’d be a weird way to do so. It would be better to rename it back to test and explicitly put an exclude line in MANIFEST.in if you want the exclusion.

[chrahunt]

The only reason I know of for naming the folder tests is to avoid conflicting with the test standard library module.

[di]

The directory in this project should probably just change to test so that it aligns with the default setuptools behavior.