I am currently in a group project in school. We are using the python standard-library, and we are wondering if it has been tested by the python team. In other words, is there any documentation or open source unit tests
for the entire python standard-library, and if so, where can we read more about this?
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August Jelemson
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[https://github.com/python/cpython#testing](https://github.com/python/cpython#testing) – Maurice Meyer Apr 27 '18 at 17:37
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4Of course there are tests. Releasing a project of such a scale without tests would be ridiculous. https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/b21d155f57d284aecf9092a9bd24258293965c2f/Lib/test – Aran-Fey Apr 27 '18 at 17:37
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Also see the [Python Developer's Guide](https://devguide.python.org/), which (IIRC… I haven't read through the whole thing in a long time…) includes sections on using the test suite, how to create unit tests for new features, and even the results of a code-coverage scan for unit tests that they run periodically (although you may not be able to run the same scan yourself for free). – abarnert Apr 27 '18 at 17:49
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@Aran-Fey , using words like "ridiculous" is rude and condescending. – August Jelemson Jul 09 '22 at 18:17
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Indeed, it is. They are located in the Lib/test directory of the CPython Github repository.
They are prefixed so that, for example, the abc
module is named test_abc.py
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