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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/build_systems/pythonpackage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/build_systems/pythonpackage.rst index 13b59cc96e..53d0f09167 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/build_systems/pythonpackage.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/build_systems/pythonpackage.rst @@ -582,6 +582,19 @@ libraries. Make sure not to add modules/packages containing the word "test", as these likely won't end up in the installation directory, or may require test dependencies like pytest to be installed. +Instead of defining the ``import_modules`` explicity, only the subset +of module names to be skipped can be defined by using ``skip_modules``. +If a defined module has submodules, they are skipped as well, e.g., +in case the ``plotting`` modules should be excluded from the +automatically detected ``import_modules`` ``['nilearn', 'nilearn.surface', +'nilearn.plotting', 'nilearn.plotting.data']`` set: + +.. code-block:: python + + skip_modules = ['nilearn.plotting'] + +This will set ``import_modules`` to ``['nilearn', 'nilearn.surface']`` + Import tests can be run during the installation using ``spack install --test=root`` or at any time after the installation using ``spack test run``. |