[TIP] pytest installation - setuptools causing failures

[Florian Bruhin]

* Dale Potter <dalepotter at gmail.com> [2016-07-13 09:52:18 +0100]:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having some interesting errors when trying to set up pytest on a mac
> with a project that uses virtualenv.
> 
> I’ve run the installation instructions on
> http://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/getting-started.html :
> 
> 
> 1) pip install -U pytest
> 
> 2) Created a file ‘test_sample.py’ with contents:
> 
> def func(x):
>     return x + 1
> 
> def test_answer():
>     assert func(3) == 5
> 
> 3) Running py.test gives the output below.

It's simply pytest picking up setuptools' tests inside your
virtualenv, which is probably not what you intended.

Either name it something like .pyenv (as pytest excludes hidden
directories by default), or add "norecursedirs = pyenv" to your
pytest.ini:
http://pytest.org/latest/customize.html#confval-norecursedirs

Florian

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