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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">If you're having problems with pyc files you might want to look into this: <a href="http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE">http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE</a><br>
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<div id="divRpF195550" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> testing-in-python-bounces@lists.idyll.org [testing-in-python-bounces@lists.idyll.org] on behalf of Laurens Van Houtven [_@lvh.cc]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 October 2012 15:39<br>
<b>To:</b> Testing in Python<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [TIP] [tox] Stale pyc files causing false positive test successes<br>
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<div>Hi guys,</div>
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<div>I'm generally a pretty happy tox user, but recently I ran into something that appears to have generated a false positive. Apparently I misunderstand how tox works, because I figured this wouldn't be possible...<br>
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Anyway, I removed a package (both the directory, the __init__.py and the module inside of it), re-ran the tests, and it worked fine. Later, when actually trying to run the code in the venv, it broke -- there was still something relying on importing that package
but the tests didn't catch it.<br>
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I honestly have no idea whatsoever how this happened. It's the first time I've seen this behavior, despite it not being the first package I pruned.<br>
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I guess the way to fix this is by recreating the environment? That seems to have fixed the issue. I guess maybe in doing so I've also nuked any possibility of further diagnosing the problem; hopefully the above recollection is enough to ring a bell somewhere.<br>
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cheers
<div>lvh</div>
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