How to run unittest with distutils in python3.3

Question

Is there a way to run unittests for a module with setup.py using distutils? python3.3 distutils doesn't seem to support the 'test_suite' option:

In setup.py I have the following code: test_suite = 'test.run_tests',

Answer 1

No distutils version supports test integration: it's a setuptools add-on.

unittest in 2.7 and 3.2 gained support for auto-discovering tests, so even if you can't run python setup.py test there's still python -m unittest .