<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Hi James,</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">What error do you get? From your example it is missing a <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">self</code> argument, otherwise it should work just fine.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Cheers,<br>Bruno.</p>
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    <p class="gmail_msg">I tried to make it work with a class:<br class="gmail_msg">
    </p>
    <p class="gmail_msg">import pytest<br class="gmail_msg">
      <br class="gmail_msg">
      # testscript.py<br class="gmail_msg">
      class TestAclasss:</p></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><p class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
          def test_foo(a):<br class="gmail_msg">
              assert a == &#39;1&#39;<br class="gmail_msg">
    </p></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><p class="gmail_msg"></p>
    Do I need to do something in the __init__ function?</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
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    <div class="m_-3825917875471976212moz-cite-prefix gmail_msg">On 2016-10-14 02:50 PM, Bruno Oliveira
      wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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            <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Hi James,</p>
            <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Thanks for posting the
              complete example.</p>
            <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">There are some
              problems here, both general Python problems and some
              related to how you are using pytest:</p>
            <ol style="margin:1.2em 0px;padding-left:2em" class="gmail_msg">
              <li style="margin:0.5em 0px" class="gmail_msg"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline" class="gmail_msg">testscript.py</code>
                has no access to the <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline" class="gmail_msg">A</code>
                function because it doesn’t import it. </li>
              <li style="margin:0.5em 0px" class="gmail_msg">You probably want to declare
                your fixture in a <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline" class="gmail_msg">conftest.py</code>
                file so pytest can make it available for all tests in
                your test suite.</li>
              <li style="margin:0.5em 0px" class="gmail_msg">You have to first declare
                your option using the <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline" class="gmail_msg">pytest_addoption</code>
                hook.</li>
              <li style="margin:0.5em 0px" class="gmail_msg">Since you intend to provide
                the value passed in the command line to the tests using
                a fixture, it is simpler to skip the test in the fixture
                itself.</li>
            </ol>
            <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Here’s the full
              example with my suggestions:</p>
            <pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px" class="gmail_msg"><code class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs m_-3825917875471976212language-python gmail_msg" style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important;display:block;overflow-x:auto;padding:0.5em;background:rgb(35,36,31);color:rgb(248,248,242)"><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-comment gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(117,113,94)"># conftest.py</span>
<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)">import</span> pytest

<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-decorator gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(117,113,94)">@pytest.fixture(scope=&#39;module&#39;)</span>
<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-function gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)"><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114);color:rgb(102,217,239)">def</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-title gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(166,226,46)">a</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-params gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(248,248,242)">(request)</span>:</span>
    value = request.config.getoption(<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-string gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(230,219,116)">&quot;A&quot;</span>)
    <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)">if</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)">not</span> value:
        pytest.skip(<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-string gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(230,219,116)">&#39;test needs -A option to run&#39;</span>)
    <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)">return</span> value

<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-function gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)"><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114);color:rgb(102,217,239)">def</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-title gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(166,226,46)">pytest_addoption</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-params gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(248,248,242)">(parser)</span>:</span>
    parser.addoption(<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-string gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(230,219,116)">&quot;--A&quot;</span>, action=<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-string gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(230,219,116)">&quot;store&quot;</span>, default=<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)">None</span>, help=<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-string gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(230,219,116)">&quot;a option&quot;</span>)    

<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-comment gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(117,113,94)"># testscript.py</span>
<span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-function gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)"><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114);color:rgb(102,217,239)">def</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-title gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(166,226,46)">test_foo</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-params gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(248,248,242)">(a)</span>:</span>
    <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-keyword gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(249,38,114)">assert</span> a == <span class="m_-3825917875471976212hljs-string gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(230,219,116)">&#39;1&#39;</span>
</code></pre>
            <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Running it:</p>
            <pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px" class="gmail_msg"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important" class="gmail_msg">$ py.test testscript.py -q
s
1 skipped in 0.01 seconds

$ py.test testscript.py -q --A 1
.
1 passed in 0.01 seconds

$ py.test testscript.py -q --A 2
F
================================== FAILURES ===================================
__________________________________ test_foo ___________________________________

a = &#39;2&#39;

    def test_foo(a):
&gt;       assert a == &#39;1&#39;
E       assert &#39;2&#39; == &#39;1&#39;
E         - 2
E         + 1

testscript.py:6: AssertionError
1 failed in 0.07 seconds
</code></pre>
            <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Hope that helps,<br class="gmail_msg">
              Bruno.</p>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:07
            PM James &lt;<a href="mailto:bjlockie@lockie.ca" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">bjlockie@lockie.ca</a>&gt; wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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              Here is the exact code:<br class="gmail_msg">
              $ cat testconfig.py <br class="gmail_msg">
              import pytest</div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
              <br class="gmail_msg">
              @pytest.fixture(scope=&#39;module&#39;)<br class="gmail_msg">
              def A(request):<br class="gmail_msg">
                  return request.config.getoption(&quot;--A&quot;)<br class="gmail_msg">
              <br class="gmail_msg">
            </div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"> $
              cat testscript.py <br class="gmail_msg">
              import pytest</div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
               <br class="gmail_msg">
              skip_A = pytest.mark.skipif(<br class="gmail_msg">
                  A(pytest.config.request),<br class="gmail_msg">
                  reason=&quot;need --A option to run&quot;<br class="gmail_msg">
              )<br class="gmail_msg">
              <br class="gmail_msg">
              <br class="gmail_msg">
            </div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"> $
              py.test testscript.py <br class="gmail_msg">
              ============================= test session starts
              ==============================<br class="gmail_msg">
              platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.12, pytest-2.8.7, py-1.4.31,
              pluggy-0.3.1<br class="gmail_msg">
              rootdir: /home/rjl/pytest, inifile: <br class="gmail_msg">
              collected 0 items / 1 errors <br class="gmail_msg">
              <br class="gmail_msg">
              ==================================== ERRORS
              ====================================<br class="gmail_msg">
              ________________________ ERROR collecting testscript.py
              ________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
              testscript.py:4: in &lt;module&gt;<br class="gmail_msg">
                  A(pytest.config.request),</div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
              E   NameError: name &#39;A&#39; is not defined<br class="gmail_msg">
            </div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg">
              =========================== 1 error in 0.01 seconds
              ============================<br class="gmail_msg">
              <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
                Instead of doing </span><br class="gmail_msg">
              <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg"><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">pytest</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">.</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">config</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">.</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">getoption</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045p gmail_msg"></span> more than one like this:<br class="gmail_msg">
                skip_A</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">=</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">pytest</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">.</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">mark</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">.</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">skipif</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045p gmail_msg">(</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">pytest</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">.</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">config</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">.</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">getoption</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045p gmail_msg">(</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045s2 gmail_msg">&quot;--A&quot;</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045p gmail_msg">),</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045n gmail_msg">reason</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045o gmail_msg">=</span><span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045s2 gmail_msg">&quot;need --A option to run&quot;</span> <span class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045p gmail_msg">)<br class="gmail_msg">
                I want to do it once in the config file.</span><br class="gmail_msg">
              I might want to use the value of the argument --A
              elsewhere so I don&#39;t want to do getoption many times.</div>
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
              <br class="gmail_msg">
              <div class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045moz-cite-prefix gmail_msg">On 2016-10-14 01:16 PM, Bruno Oliveira wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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                    <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Hi,</p>
                    <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">After fixing the missing
                      “pytest” import, I get this error:</p>
                    <pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px" class="gmail_msg"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important" class="gmail_msg">foo.py:8: in &lt;module&gt;
    A(pytest.config.request),
E   AttributeError: &#39;Config&#39; object has no attribute &#39;request&#39;
</code></pre>
                    <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Please make sure to post a
                      complete example and state clearly what your
                      problem is and what you are trying to accomplish.</p>
                    <p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important" class="gmail_msg">Cheers,<br class="gmail_msg">
                      Bruno.</p>
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                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Fri, Oct 14, 2016
                    at 2:03 PM James &lt;<a href="mailto:bjlockie@lockie.ca" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">bjlockie@lockie.ca</a>&gt; wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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                  <blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                    <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg">
                      <div class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045m_2364392736954871010moz-text-html gmail_msg" lang="x-western">
                        <div class="m_-3825917875471976212m_-5505830640466454722m_-779162668504465045m_2364392736954871010WordSection1 gmail_msg">I have this in my config file:<br class="gmail_msg">
                          @pytest.fixture(scope=&#39;module&#39;)<br class="gmail_msg">
                          def A(request):<br class="gmail_msg">
                              return request.config.getoption(&quot;--A&quot;)<br class="gmail_msg">
                           <br class="gmail_msg">
                          skip_A = pytest.mark.skipif(<br class="gmail_msg">
                              A(pytest.config.request),<br class="gmail_msg">
                              reason=&quot;need --A option to run&quot;<br class="gmail_msg">
                          )<br class="gmail_msg">
                          <br class="gmail_msg">
                          but when I run it, it says <br class="gmail_msg">
                          E   NameError: name &#39;A&#39; is not defined<br class="gmail_msg">
                           <br class="gmail_msg">
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