pandas/tests installed as executables (linux)

[lodagro]

Pandas installs its tests now with executable flag. Result is that nosetests skips them and no tests are find.
Running nosetests in the repository itself works fine.

[adamklein]

Note quite following the issue. On my machine, "python setup.py install" followed by nosetests pandas (from arbitrary directory) runs all the tests (kubuntu 11.10). You see something different? Any more insight you can provide on your environment?

[wesm]

They aren't executable in the git repository, does setuptools make them so? If you run nosetests --exe (per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6333495/run-all-tests-in-directory-using-nose) it will run them-- that's very irritating though.

I just did a fresh install and see:

11:53 ~/epd/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.7.0.dev_94f7a81-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/tests $ ll *.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      1 2012-02-08 11:52 __init__.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    110 2012-02-08 11:52 test_algos.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7982 2012-02-08 11:52 test_common.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  12365 2012-02-08 11:52 test_daterange.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  40582 2012-02-08 11:52 test_datetools.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  20224 2012-02-08 11:52 test_format.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 150243 2012-02-08 11:52 test_frame.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    589 2012-02-08 11:52 test_functions.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4292 2012-02-08 11:52 test_graphics.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  52660 2012-02-08 11:52 test_groupby.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  50462 2012-02-08 11:52 test_index.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  10755 2012-02-08 11:52 test_internals.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  39078 2012-02-08 11:52 test_multilevel.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    741 2012-02-08 11:52 test_ndframe.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  40854 2012-02-08 11:52 test_panel.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1626 2012-02-08 11:52 test_reshape.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  67818 2012-02-08 11:52 test_series.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    411 2012-02-08 11:52 test_tools.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  12567 2012-02-08 11:52 test_tseries.py*

[wesm]

It's a setuptools "bug". I think the only real solution is to do:

nosetests --exe pandas

when running the tests on an installed package. I don't have the patience to muck around with the setup.py right now to try to work around this.

[lodagro]

I ran a git bisect, since before this worked fine.

eb2234231fbd3fb9ecf21c82b2ee1e45c1dbca3a is the first bad commit
commit eb2234231fbd3fb9ecf21c82b2ee1e45c1dbca3a
Author: Gregg Lind <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jan 4 10:18:05 2012 -0600

    re #520, more setup.py additions

Had a look at this commit (eb22342), looks like pandas switched to setuptools here.
So this confirms your idea that it is setuptools related. I have very little experience with setuptools so i dont know how to fix this, maybe @gregglind has an idea.

[gregglind]

Noted, and I will investigate. Awesome use of git bisect btw!

[cpcloud]

very stale. if this comes up again pls reopen.