Repository navigation
Automatically pass arguments from python setup.py test to pytest #6392
Description
Activity
@astrofrog I'm not sure if you had a particular approach in mind for this, but after playing with it for a little while I think it's going to be pretty difficult to implement. It seems like it would require intercepting the argument parsing for the
AstropyTestcommand, which is inherited fromCommandinsetuptools(which itself may inherit from something indistutils). It's possible this could be done with some metaclass magic, but it won't be pretty and may involve reimplementing argument handling logic, unless I can find it in the API forsetuptoolsordistutils.I'll keep thinking about it a bit but just wanted to see if you had any concrete ideas in mind when you opened the issue.
I suppose this is a "won't fix".
Please reopen if we change direction and come back to enhance our own test runner instead of moving away from it.
At the moment, only a subset of pytest command-line arguments are available for
python setup.py test, and the rest need to be passed by-a, e.g.python setup.py test -a "-x". It would be nice to simply pass any unrecognized arguments to pytest for simplicity.