Add ability to exclude files matching glob patterns with --ignore-glob

This adds the `--ignore-glob` option to allow Unix-style wildcards so
that `--ignore-glob=integration*` excludes all tests that reside in
files starting with `integration`.

Fixes: #3711

AUTHORS

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Charles Cloud
 Charnjit SiNGH (CCSJ)
 Chris Lamb
 Christian Boelsen
+Christian Fetzer
 Christian Theunert
 Christian Tismer
 Christopher Gilling

changelog/3711.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add the ``--ignore-glob`` parameter to exclude test-modules with Unix shell-style wildcards.

doc/en/example/pythoncollection.rst

@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ you will see that ``pytest`` only collects test-modules, which do not match the
 
     ========================= 5 passed in 0.02 seconds =========================
 
+The ``--ignore-glob`` option allows to ignore test file paths based on Unix shell-style wildcards.
+If you want to exclude test-modules that end with ``_01.py``, execute ``pytest`` with ``--ignore-glob='*_01.py'``.
+
 Deselect tests during test collection
 -------------------------------------
 

src/_pytest/main.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import contextlib
+import fnmatch
 import functools
 import os
 import pkgutil
@@ -117,6 +118,12 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
         metavar="path",
         help="ignore path during collection (multi-allowed).",
     )
+    group.addoption(
+        "--ignore-glob",
+        action="append",
+        metavar="path",
+        help="ignore path pattern during collection (multi-allowed).",
+    )
     group.addoption(
         "--deselect",
         action="append",
@@ -296,6 +303,17 @@ def pytest_ignore_collect(path, config):
     if py.path.local(path) in ignore_paths:
         return True
 
+    ignore_globs = []
+    excludeglobopt = config.getoption("ignore_glob")
+    if excludeglobopt:
+        ignore_globs.extend([py.path.local(x) for x in excludeglobopt])
+
+    if any(
+        fnmatch.fnmatch(six.text_type(path), six.text_type(glob))
+        for glob in ignore_globs
+    ):
+        return True
+
     allow_in_venv = config.getoption("collect_in_virtualenv")
     if not allow_in_venv and _in_venv(path):
         return True

testing/test_session.py

@@ -253,6 +253,21 @@ def test_exclude(testdir):
     result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(["*1 passed*"])
 
 
+def test_exclude_glob(testdir):
+    hellodir = testdir.mkdir("hello")
+    hellodir.join("test_hello.py").write("x y syntaxerror")
+    hello2dir = testdir.mkdir("hello2")
+    hello2dir.join("test_hello2.py").write("x y syntaxerror")
+    hello3dir = testdir.mkdir("hallo3")
+    hello3dir.join("test_hello3.py").write("x y syntaxerror")
+    subdir = testdir.mkdir("sub")
+    subdir.join("test_hello4.py").write("x y syntaxerror")
+    testdir.makepyfile(test_ok="def test_pass(): pass")
+    result = testdir.runpytest("--ignore-glob=*h[ea]llo*")
+    assert result.ret == 0
+    result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(["*1 passed*"])
+
+
 def test_deselect(testdir):
     testdir.makepyfile(
         test_a="""