Breaking out the Django Tests

So I'm using Django at work, and I'm finally getting into this testing thing. My biggest annoyance with django's way of testing is that it forces you to put your tests in either app_dir/tests.py or app_dir/models.py What I want to do is to either break out the tests into files in the test directory, or wherever I want.

Django uses python's unittest framework. Digging through django's code, I see that It basically imports the app.tests module and runs the unittests loadTestsFromModule. Inspecting this code shows us,

def loadTestsFromModule(self, module):
"""Return a suite of all tests cases contained in the given module"""
tests = []
for name in dir(module):
obj = getattr(module, name)
if (isinstance(obj, (type, types.ClassType)) and
issubclass(obj, TestCase)):
tests.append(self.loadTestsFromTestCase(obj))
return self.suiteClass(tests)

As you can see it looks for any names the module has defined. So I can put my tests in the test module and in __init__.py do import file_name.class_name to make django find my tests