# HG changeset patch
# User Tom Oakley <tom@tomoakley.net>
# Date 1298475438 0
# Branch release27-maint
# Node ID 1a5ac252148e183171b2d0ac2d37d1abc5746162
# Parent  bd93fc12f8c3ec1c9d035a1add10f5985acb7ab5
Issue #11298: Added advice that unittest will only discover valid Python identifiers.

diff -r bd93fc12f8c3 -r 1a5ac252148e Doc/library/unittest.rst
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst	Tue Feb 22 00:59:20 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst	Wed Feb 23 15:37:18 2011 +0000
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@
 Unittest supports simple test discovery. For a project's tests to be
 compatible with test discovery they must all be importable from the top level
 directory of the project (in other words, they must all be in Python packages).
+Ensure that the module names are valid Python identifiers. For example, tests 
+in "test_foo.py" will be discovered, but tests in "test-foo.py" will not.
 
 Test discovery is implemented in :meth:`TestLoader.discover`, but can also be
 used from the command line. The basic command-line usage is::