diff --git a/runtests.rst b/runtests.rst
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--- a/runtests.rst
+++ b/runtests.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,19 @@ path to the test case::
 
    ./python -m unittest -v test.test_abc.TestABC_Py
 
+Some test modules also support direct invocation, 
+which might be useful for IDEs and local debugging::
+
+   ./python Lib/test/test_typing.py
+
+But, there are several important notes:
+
+1. This way of running tests exists only 
+   for local developer needs and is discouraged for anything else
+2. Some modules do not support it at all. One example is``test_importlib``.
+   In other words: if some module does not have ``unittest.main()``, then
+   most likely it does not support direct invocation.
+
 If you have a multi-core or multi-CPU machine, you can enable parallel testing
 using several Python processes so as to speed up things::