- add a nose runner that erases out argv, otherwise

you get "import test" as what it tries to run with
setup.py test

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/runner.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/runner.py
index 6ec73d7c8..2bdbaebd1 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/runner.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/runner.py
@@ -31,3 +31,13 @@ import nose
 
 def main():
     nose.main(addplugins=[NoseSQLAlchemy()])
+
+def setup_py_test():
+    """Runner to use for the 'test_suite' entry of your setup.py.
+
+    Prevents any name clash shenanigans from the command line
+    argument "test" that the "setup.py test" command sends
+    to nose.
+
+    """
+    nose.main(addplugins=[NoseSQLAlchemy()], argv=['runner'])