[TIP] py.test and Namespace Package issue

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

Hi Tom,

this might be an issue with not taking the pretty strange behaviour of 
namespace packages in setuptools into account

can you report a bug and maybe provide a link to a project that uses it 
that way?

-- Ronny

On 02/26/2013 04:21 PM, Tom Davis wrote:
> I have a couple 2.7-style namespace packages, call 'em:
>
>      foo.web
>      foo.api
>
> Now, say I symlink web then api:
>
>      cd ~/foo/{web,api}&&  python setup.py develop
>
> If I now do `py.test --pyargs foo.web.tests`, the tests will fail with
> "ImportError: No module named web.tests.conftest". However! Either of
> these work fine:
>
>      python -mpytest
>      python setup.py test
>
> I narrowed this down to `py._path.pyimport()` and found that if I
> ensured that `pkgpath` is always `None`, it works. Oddly, all three
> methods appear to be going through the same code path.
>
> I also discovered that deleting __init__.py from the `tests` directories
> also fixed it.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or just an oddity of namespace packages.
>
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