[TIP] Tox: An environment using sys.executable as the Python interpreter

[holger krekel]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:32 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
> Running tox under CI (travis or Appveyor) there's a common approach
> that I see which is to set TOXENV for each test you want to run. While
> that's mostly fine, it does rely on either there being a default tox
> environment (py35 or similar) that does what you want, or hard-coding
> the CI system's Python location(s) in tox.ini.
> 
> Appveyor includes two versions of most Python interpreters, 32 and 64
> bit. But tox doesn't include default environments corresponding to
> both of these.
> 
> What I'd like to be able to do is to have an environment that is
> "whatever Python I used to invoke tox" - but I don't see anything like
> that. I tried putting the complete path to the Python interpreter in
> TOXENV, but that gave me "unknown environment" :-(

Not sure i fully understand the problem but the "py" environment
does use the tox invocation interpreter.

holger

> The objective is to have a tox.ini that has nothing hard coded in it
> that refers to the CI environment, but which can test with whatever
> version of Python I select. It seems like this should be easy, but I'm
> struggling to find a clean way of doing it.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
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