On 8/5/2010 2:06 PM, holger krekel wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 13:46 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>> > I am trying to run py.test on a given module object dynamically.
>> >
>> > mod = __import__('company.foo.somemod')
>> > py.test.run(mod)
>> >
>> > A quick glance in the py.test source doesn't seem like a trivial thing.
>> > IPython introspection did not give me any clue either.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to do this at all? I did try
>> > py.test.cmdline.main(['...']), but that accepts only file path, not the
>> > Python module object itself.
> there currently is no direct support for running tests in python modules.
> py.test basically always starts from the file system. Does it help you
> to try to fish the file from somemod.__file__ and pass this to cmdline.main()?
> You only expect it to collect tests of a single module, right?
> I guess we could add some more direct support for this if
> you continue to have the need (please create an issue if so).
Hmm, __file__ is a workaround, but it seems to work fine for my use
case. I was just wondering if an API was exposed.
I am happy with __file__ for now.
-srid
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