[TIP] Setuptools and pytest integration issue

[Laszlo Papp]

Hi all,

I am having some issues with getting it working correctly.

sudo python setup.py test
running test
running egg_info
writing PyFoo.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to PyFoo.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to PyFoo.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'PyFoo.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'PyFoo.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
running build_ext
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test session starts
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platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.8 -- py-1.4.23 -- pytest-2.6.1
ERROR: file not found: test

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This is the setup.py content that I pretty much copied and pasted over
from the official documentation (*):

import os
import sys

from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
from setuptools import setup

scriptDirectoryPath = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

exec(open(os.path.join(scriptDirectoryPath, 'pyfoo', 'version.py')).read())

class PyTest(TestCommand):
    user_options = [('pytest-args=', 'a', "Arguments to pass to py.test")]

    def initialize_options(self):
        TestCommand.initialize_options(self)
        self.pytest_args = None

    def finalize_options(self):
        TestCommand.finalize_options(self)
        self.test_args = []
        self.test_suite = True

    def run_tests(self):
        #import here, cause outside the eggs aren't loaded
        import pytest
        errno = pytest.main(self.pytest_args)
        sys.exit(errno)

setup(
    name='PyFoo',
    version=__version__,
    long_description=__doc__,
    author='Laszlo Papp',
    author_email='laszlo.papp at foo.com',
    description = ("Python API for Foo."),
    url = "http://www.foo.com",
    packages=['pyfoo'],
    include_package_data=True,
    zip_safe=False,
    tests_require=['pytest'],
    cmdclass = {'test': PyTest},
)

If I pass the "tests" directory to pytest as it can be seen below,
then it works. However, this is neither mentioned in the official
documentation, nor is it something that I would prefer the users to
do.

python setup.py test --pytest-args=tests

Is there a way to just get it automagically working? If yes, is there
something missing from the documentation or I have just overlooked
something simple? Thanks in advance.

Cheers, L.