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+#!/bin/bash -eu
+#
+# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+pushd "$(dirname $0)" >/dev/null
+test_dir="$(pwd)"
+gen_code_path=${test_dir}
+runtime_library_dir=${test_dir}/../python
+
+# Emit Python code for the example schema in the test dir:
+${test_dir}/../flatc -p -o ${gen_code_path} -I include_test monster_test.fbs
+
+# Syntax: run_tests <interpreter> <benchmark vtable dedupes>
+#                   <benchmark read count> <benchmark build count>
+interpreters_tested=()
+function run_tests() {
+  if $(which ${1} >/dev/null); then
+    echo "Testing with interpreter: ${1}"
+    PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
+    JYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
+    PYTHONPATH=${runtime_library_dir}:${gen_code_path} \
+    JYTHONPATH=${runtime_library_dir}:${gen_code_path} \
+    COMPARE_GENERATED_TO_GO=0 \
+    COMPARE_GENERATED_TO_JAVA=0 \
+    $1 py_test.py $2 $3 $4
+    interpreters_tested+=(${1})
+    echo
+  fi
+}
+
+# Run test suite with these interpreters. The arguments are benchmark counts.
+run_tests python2.6 100 100 100
+run_tests python2.7 100 100 100
+run_tests python3 100 100 100
+run_tests pypy 100 100 100
+
+# NOTE: We'd like to support python2.5 in the future.
+
+# NOTE: Jython 2.7.0 fails due to a bug in the stdlib `struct` library:
+#       http://bugs.jython.org/issue2188
+
+if [ ${#interpreters_tested[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "No Python interpeters found on this system, could not run tests."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Run test suite with default python intereter.
+# (If the Python program `coverage` is available, it will be run, too.
+#  Install `coverage` with `pip install coverage`.)
+if $(which coverage >/dev/null); then
+  echo 'Found coverage utility, running coverage with default Python:'
+
+  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
+  PYTHONPATH=${runtime_library_dir}:${gen_code_path} \
+  coverage run --source=flatbuffers,MyGame py_test.py 0 0 0 > /dev/null
+
+  echo
+  cov_result=`coverage report --omit="*flatbuffers/vendor*,*py_test*" \
+              | tail -n 1 | awk ' { print $4 } '`
+  echo "Code coverage: ${cov_result}"
+else
+  echo -n "Did not find coverage utility for default Python, skipping. "
+  echo "Install with 'pip install coverage'."
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "OK: all tests passed for ${#interpreters_tested[@]} interpreters: ${interpreters_tested[@]}."