py.test distutils

Links

• http://pytest.org/goodpractises.html

Integrating with distutils

You can easily integrate test runs into your distutils or setuptools based project. Use the genscript method to generate a standalone py.test script:

py.test --genscript=runtest.py

…and make this script part of your distribution and then add this to your setup.py file:

from distutils.core import setup, Command
# you can also import from setuptools

class PyTest(Command):
    user_options = []
    def initialize_options(self):
        pass
    def finalize_options(self):
        pass
    def run(self):
        import sys,subprocess
        errno = subprocess.call([sys.executable, 'runtest.py'])
        raise SystemExit(errno)
setup(
    #...,
    cmdclass = {'test': PyTest},
    #...,
)

If you now type:

python setup.py test

…this will execute your tests using runtest.py. As this is a standalone version of py.test no prior installation whatsoever is required for calling the test command. You can also pass additional arguments to the subprocess-calls like your test directory or other options.