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+from distutils.core import setup, Command
+from unittest import TextTestRunner
+
+
+class test(Command):
+    description = "Runs the unit tests"
+    user_options = [('test-suite=', 's', "Name of the unittest suite to run")]
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        self.test_suite = None
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def run(self):
+        print 'Hey yo'
+        print self.test_suite
+        suite = __import__(self.test_suite, locals(), globals())
+        runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()
+        TextTestRunner.run(suite)
+
+
+setup(name='bitten', version='1.0',
+      packages=['bitten', 'bitten.general', 'bitten.python'],
+      cmdclass={'test': test})