From 1db5c95414480cdb21804d7d8ef898a5f69b7c34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: curzona <curzona@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:36:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Automatically create directory for results

---
 _pytest/junitxml.py  | 3 +++
 _pytest/resultlog.py | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/_pytest/junitxml.py b/_pytest/junitxml.py
index 6d25d8407..a248a0715 100644
--- a/_pytest/junitxml.py
+++ b/_pytest/junitxml.py
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ class LogXML(object):
         self.suite_start_time = time.time()
 
     def pytest_sessionfinish(self):
+        dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(self.logfile))
+        if not os.path.exists(dirname):
+            os.makedirs(dirname)
         logfile = open(self.logfile, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
         suite_stop_time = time.time()
         suite_time_delta = suite_stop_time - self.suite_start_time
diff --git a/_pytest/resultlog.py b/_pytest/resultlog.py
index 0c100552f..44312d319 100644
--- a/_pytest/resultlog.py
+++ b/_pytest/resultlog.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ text file.
 """
 
 import py
+import os
 
 def pytest_addoption(parser):
     group = parser.getgroup("terminal reporting", "resultlog plugin options")
@@ -14,6 +15,9 @@ def pytest_configure(config):
     resultlog = config.option.resultlog
     # prevent opening resultlog on slave nodes (xdist)
     if resultlog and not hasattr(config, 'slaveinput'):
+        dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(resultlog))
+        if not os.path.exists(dirname):
+            os.makedirs(dirname)
         logfile = open(resultlog, 'w', 1) # line buffered
         config._resultlog = ResultLog(config, logfile)
         config.pluginmanager.register(config._resultlog)

From 9346e18d8c2e611747fe2b7c82ab6f0ae38aec55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: curzona <curzona@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:36:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Test creating directory for junit-xml and resultlog

---
 testing/test_junitxml.py  |  9 +++++++++
 testing/test_resultlog.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 9da836bbe..65e3ca03f 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -474,6 +474,15 @@ def test_logxml_changingdir(testdir):
     assert result.ret == 0
     assert testdir.tmpdir.join("a/x.xml").check()
 
+def test_logxml_makedir(testdir):
+    testdir.makepyfile("""
+        def test_pass():
+            pass
+    """)
+    result = testdir.runpytest("--junitxml=path/to/results.xml")
+    assert result.ret == 0
+    assert testdir.tmpdir.join("path/to/results.xml").check()
+
 def test_escaped_parametrized_names_xml(testdir):
     testdir.makepyfile("""
         import pytest
diff --git a/testing/test_resultlog.py b/testing/test_resultlog.py
index e4f3faccc..96686d3a2 100644
--- a/testing/test_resultlog.py
+++ b/testing/test_resultlog.py
@@ -180,6 +180,20 @@ def test_generic(testdir, LineMatcher):
         "x *:test_xfail_norun",
     ])
 
+def test_makedir_for_resultlog(testdir, LineMatcher):
+    testdir.plugins.append("resultlog")
+    testdir.makepyfile("""
+        import pytest
+        def test_pass():
+            pass
+    """)
+    testdir.runpytest("--resultlog=path/to/result.log")
+    lines = testdir.tmpdir.join("path/to/result.log").readlines(cr=0)
+    LineMatcher(lines).fnmatch_lines([
+        ". *:test_pass",
+    ])
+
+
 def test_no_resultlog_on_slaves(testdir):
     config = testdir.parseconfig("-p", "resultlog", "--resultlog=resultlog")
 

From 1871d526ace55bad1cffc0ca9d8b652a6a6c10ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: curzona <curzona@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:37:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update CHANGELOG and AUTHORS

---
 AUTHORS   | 1 +
 CHANGELOG | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index abe29c261..0b59555f0 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@ Nicolas Delaby
 Tom Viner
 Dave Hunt
 Charles Cloud
+Aron Curzon
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 334bf8b6f..c12bcce7c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 2.7.2 (compared to 2.7.1)
 -----------------------------
 
+- Automatically create directory for junitxml and results log.
+  Thanks Aron Curzon.
+
 - fix issue735: assertion failures on debug versions of Python 3.4+
   Thanks Benjamin Peterson.