.. _development:

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Development
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You can help developing PyMySQL by `contributing on GitHub`_.

.. _contributing on GitHub: https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL

Building the documentation
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Go to the ``docs`` directory and run ``make html``.


Test Suite
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If you would like to run the test suite, create a database for testing like this::

    mysql -e 'create database test_pymysql  DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;'
    mysql -e 'create database test_pymysql2 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;'

Then, copy the file ``ci/database.json`` to ``pymysql/tests/databases.json``
and edit the new file to match your MySQL configuration::

    $ cp ci/database.json pymysql/tests/databases.json
    $ $EDITOR pymysql/tests/databases.json

To run all the tests, execute the script ``runtests.py``::

    $ pip install pytest
    $ pytest -v pymysql