I just committed a change to backend_driver.py that allows running a
subset of all tests by directory. In the process I changed the command
line parsing to use OptionParser, but I tried to keep it reasonably
backward compatible. Here are the options the script now takes:
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DIRS, --dirs=DIRS, --directories=DIRS
Run only the tests in these directories; comma-
separated list of one or more of: pylab (or
pylab_examples), api, units, mplot3d
-b BACKENDS, --backends=BACKENDS
Run tests only for these backends; comma-separated
list of one or more of: agg, ps, svg, pdf, template,
cairo, cairo.png, cairo.ps, cairo.pdf, cairo.svg.
Default is everything except cairo.
--clean Remove result directories, run no tests
-c, --coverage Run in coverage.py
-v, --valgrind Run in valgrind
In addition to the list of backends given via the -b and --backends
options, any extra arguments are added to the list of backends, or
interpreted as switches to pass to the subprocess that runs each test.
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Jouni K. Sepp�nen
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