From ef361d46cd3e8f366a96199a07cb0fef4b485e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Groth <christoph.groth@cea.fr>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:35:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] stop advertising the running of tests to end users
I've realized that this was broken. (The tests were not installed and could be
only run for inplace-builds linked from somewhere else.) Fixing this would be
somewhat hacky. I think now that it was a bad idea in the first place to
advertise the running of unit tests to end users.
---
INSTALL.txt | 14 +-------------
kwant/__init__.py | 19 -------------------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index a009fb9..8e8e3fe 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ The following software is highly recommended though not strictly required:
that will in many cases speed up kwant several times and reduce the memory
footprint.
-Suggested:
-
- - The `nose <http://nose.readthedocs.org/>`_ testing framework is required to
- run the extensive tests included with kwant.
-
Generic instructions
====================
@@ -51,12 +46,6 @@ subdirectory, e.g.::
cd tutorial
python 1-quantum_wire_revisited.py
-If "nose" is installed, you can also run the tests ::
-
- python -c 'import kwant; kwant.test()'
-
-from some directory *other* than the kwant distribution's root directory.
-
System-specific instructions
============================
@@ -262,5 +251,4 @@ extension). You will need Cython 0.17.1 if you want to modify them.
kwant includes extensive unit tests which are supposed to cover all of its
functionality. We use the `nose <http://nose.readthedocs.org/>`_ testing
framework. To run the tests, execute the command ``nosetests`` from the root
-directory of the package after it has been built in place. You can also
-``import kwant`` inside Python and run ``kwant.test()``.
+directory of the package after it has been built in place.
diff --git a/kwant/__init__.py b/kwant/__init__.py
index b5766a5..ff4d188 100644
--- a/kwant/__init__.py
+++ b/kwant/__init__.py
@@ -27,22 +27,3 @@ try:
except ImportError:
from .solvers.sparse import solve
__all__.append('solve')
-
-def runtest():
- """Run the tests included with kwant."""
- import os.path
- try:
- import nose
- except ImportError:
- msg = 'No module named nose.\n(See INSTALL.txt in ' \
- 'the top-level directory of the kwant distribution.)'
- raise ImportError(msg)
- kwant_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
- if os.path.basename(kwant_dir) == kwant_dir:
- msg = 'Do not call kwant.test from within the kwant source ' \
- 'distribution directory.\nYou can run "nosetests -s" instead.'
- raise RuntimeError(msg)
- nose.run(defaultTest=kwant_dir)
-
-# This trick avoids recursive execution of tests by nosetests.
-test = runtest
--
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