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  r83072 | brett.cannon | 2010-07-23 12:31:31 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 5 lines

  Document the fact that the 'test' package is meant only for use by Python
  itself and not by others.

  Closes issue 9255.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/test.rst b/Doc/library/test.rst
index 974f71fd407b52fa4032bd5a286d2e45a517720f..0b1610986040cc8765da7fa8c842ad4f65dfb78c 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/test.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/test.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
    :synopsis: Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python.
 .. sectionauthor:: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
 
+.. note::
+    The :mod:`test` package is meant for internal use by Python only. It is
+    documented for the benefit of the core developers of Python. Any use of
+    this package outside of Python's standard library is discouraged as code
+    mentioned here can change or be removed without notice between releases of
+    Python.
+
 
 The :mod:`test` package contains all regression tests for Python as well as the
 modules :mod:`test.support` and :mod:`test.regrtest`.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7f3f0e1bd73fe6d7ccd1cd98c2746376e4601f8c..5c25c6cacac7cec55a3c0363fd1d28e8a41b1cd0 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@ Tests
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue 9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for interal Python use
+  only.
+
 - Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.