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basic test configuration
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Command line options and configuration file settings
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You can get help on options and ini-config values by running::
py.test -h # prints options _and_ config file settings
This will display command line and configuration file settings
which were registered by installed plugins.
how test configuration is read from setup/tox ini-files
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py.test searched for the first matching ini-style configuration file
in the directories of command line argument and the directories above.
It looks for filenames in this order::
pytest.ini
tox.ini
setup.cfg
Searching stops when the first ``[pytest]`` section is found.
There is no merging of configuration values from multiple files. Example::
py.test path/to/testdir
will look in the following dirs for a config file::
path/to/testdir/pytest.ini
path/to/testdir/tox.ini
path/to/testdir/setup.cfg
path/to/pytest.ini
path/to/tox.ini
path/to/setup.cfg
... # up until root of filesystem
If argument is provided to a py.test run, the current working directory
is used to start the search.
builtin configuration file options
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.. confval:: minversion
specifies a minimal pytest version needed for running tests.
minversion = 2.1 # will fail if we run with pytest-2.0
.. confval:: addopts
add the specified ``OPTS`` to the set of command line arguments as if they
had been specified by the user. Example: if you have this ini file content::
[pytest]
addopts = --maxfail=2 -rf # exit after 2 failures, report fail info
issuing ``py.test test_hello.py`` actually means::
py.test --maxfail=2 -rf test_hello.py
Default is to add no options.
.. confval:: norecursedirs
Set the directory basename patterns to avoid when recursing
for test discovery. The individual (fnmatch-style) patterns are
applied to the basename of a directory to decide if to recurse into it.
Pattern matching characters::
* matches everything
? matches any single character
[seq] matches any character in seq
[!seq] matches any char not in seq
Default patterns are ``.* _* CVS {args}``. Setting a ``norecurse``
replaces the default. Here is a customizing example for avoiding
a different set of directories::
# content of setup.cfg
[pytest]
norecursedirs = .svn _build tmp*
This would tell py.test to not recurse into typical subversion or
sphinx-build directories or into any ``tmp`` prefixed directory.