The Dev Guide should say the preferred way (or even a way) to run tests using the Python 2.7 build:

http://docs.python.org/devguide/runtests.html

This will help submitters who want to check that their patch works with 2.7.

In Python 2.7, this did not work (for obvious reasons):

$ ./python.exe -m test
.../python.exe: No module named test.__main__; 'test' is a package and cannot be directly executed

But this did:

$ ./python.exe -m test.regrtest

Is the latter the preferred way?

FWIW this is already mentioned in the quick start [0].
Do you want to propose a patch for runtest.rst?

[0]: http://docs.python.org/devguide/#quick-start

> FWIW this is already mentioned in the quick start [0].

I didn't catch that, thanks.

> Do you want to propose a patch for runtest.rst?

Sure.

Attaching a patch for review.

Thanks for the patch.
I'm not sure it's necessary to add a new section though, unless you are planning to add more differences there.

+base command instead of the one described above: ::

You can just use "... above::" here.

It is a relatively large section (nine paragraphs + six code snippets) and is primarily about the in-development branch, so I did not want to interrupt the flow with a remark specific to 2.7.  I also liked that the instructions in a subsection could be linked to.

But here is a new patch.

New changeset 851adff2d434 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#15521: mention that test.regrtest is necessary to run tests on 2.7.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/851adff2d434

Fixed, thanks for the patch!