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Author terry.reedy
Recipients Claudiu.Popa, Florian.Apolloner, Zbynek.Winkler, ashkop, docs@python, eric.snow, ezio.melotti, methane, michael.foord, miss-islington, pconnell, rbcollins, rgammans, rgammans@gammascience.co.uk, terry.reedy
Date 2021-02-22.18:57:38
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From the merge:

+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -330,7 +330,9 @@ Test modules and packages can customize test loading and discovery by through
 the `load_tests protocol`_.
 
 .. versionchanged:: 3.4
-   Test discovery supports :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>`.
+   Test discovery supports :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>`
+   for start directory. Note that you need to the top level directory too.
+   (e.g. ``python -m unittest discover -s root/namespace -t root``).
 
The last sentence is missing a verb after 'you need to' saying what to do about "the top level directory.  "be in"?  "go to"?  "later destroy"? (just kidding ;-)
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