[TIP] pytest installation - setuptools causing failures

[Dale Potter]

Many thanks Florian - your suggestion to rename the virtual environment did
the trick!

Out of interest, do you know where I can find the pytest.ini file that you
mentioned? I have looked all through my .pyenv but I cannot find it.

Best,
Dale



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> * 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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