nose, subversion and executable bits

For some reason, nose wasn't executing some of my tests. I found out that nose doesn't select test files if they have an executable bit, and that subversion was configured to create the files with the executable bit. That's a bit unfortunate as I want some python files to be executable, other not. I guess I will let them non executable by default. Worklog below

$ nosetests

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Ran 0 tests in 0.009s

OK
$ nosetests --verbosity 4 2>&1 | grep skipped | grep tests
nose.selector: INFO: /home/jerome/Code/Customers/..../tests/test_parse_results.py is executable; skipped

$ chmod -x  tests/test_parse_results.py

$ nosetests
......
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Ran 6 tests in 1.846s

OK

$ grep "^\*.py " /home/jerome/.subversion/config
*.py        = svn:mime-type=text/x-python; svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=Id; svn:executable

# edited the file

$ grep "^\*.py " /home/jerome/.subversion/config
*.py        = svn:mime-type=text/x-python; svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=Id