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I have such structure

app/
    __init__.py
    phonebook.py
    test_phonebook.py

Being in app directory I can run tests in terminal with python test_phonebook.py

But why tests do not run when I enterpython -m unittest being in app directory? I see message that 0 tests run

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If you want to run multiple test_*.py files by hand, you have to create unittest.TestLoader to select tests and run that with unittest.TestRunner.

For example you can add __main__.py to your app

import unittest
import os
def run(verbosity=2):
    suite = unittest.TestLoader().discover(os.path.dirname(__file__))
    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=verbosity).run(suite)
run()

and launch it with

$>python -m app

So it will discover all your tests inside app and launch them.

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looks like hack, if there a cleaner solution? –  micgeronimo Jan 21 at 21:42
    
Its the way unittest intended to be used, according to unittest docs. And i dont know about 'cleaner' but its a pythonic way, because Explicit is better than implicit –  denz Jan 22 at 15:52

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