[TIP] How do you run a specific Django unittest with Tox?

Carl Meyer carl at oddbird.net
Fri Jan 1 20:32:19 PST 2016


Hi Chris,

On 12/26/2015 12:12 PM, Chris Spencer wrote:
> I'm trying to wrap Tox around some Django unittests, and I can run all
> unittests with Tox by calling:
> 
>     django-admin.py test --settings=myapp.tests.settings myapp.tests.Tests
> 
> However, I'd like to run a specific test at
> myapp.tests.Tests.test_somespecificthing, but I can't figure out how
> pass in a custom command-line option and use that to change the command
> Tox runs.

I think for this you need the {posargs} substitution string in your
tox.ini `commands` spec. See
http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example/general.html#interactively-passing-positional-arguments
for an example.

Carl

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