actually look into all non-dot subdirs for conftest.py files - recursive walk would be too heavy for large source trees but first-level subdirs are fine IMO. Note that prior to py.test 1.0 doing this "look-ahead" was not easily doable because it was hard to avoid global state in conftest.py, this is not true anymore - so i feel ok telling people to cleanup their conftest files if they get problems (you can imagine people doing all kinds of things at global conftest.py module scope, can't you?)

--HG--
branch : trunk

CHANGELOG

@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Changes between 1.2.1 and 1.2.0
 
 - display a short and concise traceback if a funcarg lookup fails 
 
-- early-load "test*/conftest.py" files, i.e. conftest.py files in
-  directories starting with 'test'.  allows to conveniently keep and access
-  test-related options without having to put a conftest.py into the package root dir.
+- early-load "conftest.py" files in non-dot first-level sub directories. 
+  allows to conveniently keep and access test-related options without 
+  having to put a conftest.py into the package root dir.
 
 - fix issue67: new super-short traceback-printing option: "--tb=line" will print a single line for each failing (python) test indicating its filename, lineno and the failure value
 

py/_test/conftesthandle.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class Conftest(object):
                 self._path2confmods[None] = self.getconftestmodules(anchor)
                 # let's also consider test* dirs 
                 if anchor.check(dir=1):
-                    for x in anchor.listdir("test*"):
+                    for x in anchor.listdir(lambda x: x.check(dir=1, dotfile=0)):
                         self.getconftestmodules(x)
                 break
         else:

testing/test_conftesthandle.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class TestConftestValueAccessGlobal:
         l = []
         conftest = Conftest(onimport=l.append)
         conftest.setinitial([basedir.join("adir")])
-        assert len(l) == 1 
+        assert len(l) == 2 
         assert conftest.rget("a") == 1
         assert conftest.rget("b", basedir.join("adir", "b")) == 2
         assert len(l) == 2
@@ -133,18 +133,15 @@ def test_setinitial_confcut(testdir):
         assert conftest.getconftestmodules(sub) == []
         assert conftest.getconftestmodules(conf.dirpath()) == []
 
-def test_setinitial_not_considers_conftest_in_non_test_dirs(testdir):
-    sub = testdir.mkdir("sub")
-    sub.ensure("conftest.py")
-    conftest = Conftest()
-    conftest.setinitial([sub.dirpath()])
-    assert not conftest._conftestpath2mod
-
-@py.test.mark.multi(name='test tests testing'.split())
-def test_setinitial_considers_conftest_in_test_dirs(testdir, name):
+@py.test.mark.multi(name='test tests whatever .dotdir'.split())
+def test_setinitial_conftest_subdirs(testdir, name):
     sub = testdir.mkdir(name)
     subconftest = sub.ensure("conftest.py")
     conftest = Conftest()
     conftest.setinitial([sub.dirpath()])
+    if name != ".dotdir":
         assert  subconftest in conftest._conftestpath2mod
         assert len(conftest._conftestpath2mod) == 1
+    else:
+        assert  subconftest not in conftest._conftestpath2mod
+        assert len(conftest._conftestpath2mod) == 0

testing/test_genitems.py

@@ -24,15 +24,6 @@ class Test_genitems:
         p = testdir.makepyfile(conftest="raise SyntaxError\n")
         py.test.raises(SyntaxError, testdir.inline_genitems, p.dirpath())
        
-    def test_subdir_conftest_error(self, testdir):
-        tmp = testdir.tmpdir
-        tmp.ensure("sub", "conftest.py").write("raise SyntaxError('x')\n")
-        items, reprec = testdir.inline_genitems(tmp)
-        collectionfailures = reprec.getfailedcollections()
-        assert len(collectionfailures) == 1
-        ev = collectionfailures[0] 
-        assert "SyntaxError: x" in ev.longrepr.reprcrash.message
-
     def test_example_items1(self, testdir):
         p = testdir.makepyfile('''
             def testone():