From 750db70d8054719876c2e523d3a3ba3f4cf13bb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deepak Ganesh <deepakganesh78@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:52:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Include test helpers in source distributions

Explicitly include tests/__init__.py so the tests bundled in an sdist can import their shared OrderedDict and json helpers.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.rst | 4 +++-
 MANIFEST.in   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index dc673df4..c9a4d173 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 Next Release (TBD)
 ==================
 
-* No changes yet.
+* Include ``tests/__init__.py`` in source distributions so the bundled test
+  suite can import its shared helpers (`issue #341
+  <https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.py/issues/341>`__).
 
 
 1.1.0
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index a5021c60..2e8cfd80 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 include README.rst
 include LICENSE
+include tests/__init__.py