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** Changed in: testtools
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Changed in: testtools
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Jonathan Lange (jml)

** Changed in: testtools
    Milestone: None => next

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document how to use python -m with testtools on python 2.4 (its not pretty)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501174
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Status in testtools: Fix Committed

Bug description:
The testtools manual (and makefile) suggest the use of `python -m testtools.run ...` to run test suites. However, dotted modules with the -m switch do not work in Python 2.4:

    C:\>python -m testtools.run -h
    C:/Python24/python.exe: module testtools.run not found

    C:\>python Python24\Lib\site-packages\testtools\run.py -h
    usage: python -m testtools.run testspec [testspec...]

    Run some tests with the testtools extended API.

    For instance, to run the testtools test suite.
     $ python -m testtools.run testtools.tests.test_suite


    options:
      -h, --help  show this help message and exit

If there is a good reason for `python -m testtools ...` to not Just Work, then this limitation should at least be mentioned in the documentation.