For library end users, there is no need to install tests alongside the
package itself. This keeps the tests available for development without
adding extra packages to user's site-packages directory. Reduces the
size of the installed package. Avoids accidental execution of test code
by an installed package.
The tests relied on Python2 relative import semantics. Python3 changed
import semantics to always search sys.path by default. To import using a
relative path it must have a leading dot.
Forward compatible with newer Pythons.
Works towards the goal of moving tests outside of the installed package.
For more information, see PEP-328:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/
There is no need to import testutils.unittest instead of simply
unittest. They are simple aliases. Use system unittest to be more
regular, consistent as well as idiomatic with the wider Python
community.
libpq's PQescapeString will use the same encoding it has seen before in
a connection (static_client_encoding).
So I think I'll leave this feature here for people who know what is
doing, but won't really document it as a feature: it can't really work
in a generic way (unless adding some disgusting hack like creating a
fake connection with the encoding we want to call PQescapeStringConn
instead of PQescapeString).
Dropped encoding parameter in the constructor: it is used
nowhere and not documented. Use directly the connection
encoding if available, else the previous latin1 fallback.
Dropped cyclic import from modules to tests: they were only working
because a second copy of the package was found in the project dir.
Use relative import so that 2to3 can do a good conversion.
* tests/*.py: use the DSN constructed in tests/__init__.py.
* tests/__init__.py: allow setting the host, port and user for the
DSN used by the tests through the environment.
requiring it.
Added a connection flag to store whether E''-style quoting is required: this
avoids repeated PQparameterStatus() calls.
Added a test case to verify correct behavior on strings, unicode and binary
data. Tested with PG versions from 7.4 to 8.3b2, with any server
'standard_conforming_strings' setting and with 'PSYCOPG_OWN_QUOTING' too.
