Nosetest including unwanted parent directories

Question

I\'m trying to limit nosetests to a specific directory, however during the test run it\'s including the parent directories of the dir I\'m targetting and in doing so throws

Answer 1

I suppose that you are expecting the following behavior.

nose.importer: DEBUG: Add path /projects/myproject
nose.importer: DEBUG: insert /projects/myproject into sys.path

Why not try a --match or an --exclude pattern to restrict the tests set ?

Try:

--exclude myproject/myproject

I check the source code of nose.importer : nose recursivly add_path the parents packages of specs. I think that you cannot bypass this unless you create a specific importer... I do not not know if this is possible this the nose API.

def add_path(path, config=None):
    """Ensure that the path, or the root of the current package (if
    path is in a package), is in sys.path.
    """

    # FIXME add any src-looking dirs seen too... need to get config for that

    log.debug('Add path %s' % path)    
    if not path:
        return []
    added = []
    parent = os.path.dirname(path)
    if (parent
        and os.path.exists(os.path.join(path, '__init__.py'))):
        added.extend(add_path(parent, config))
    elif not path in sys.path:
        log.debug("insert %s into sys.path", path)
        sys.path.insert(0, path)
        added.append(path)
    if config and config.srcDirs:
        for dirname in config.srcDirs:
            dirpath = os.path.join(path, dirname)
            if os.path.isdir(dirpath):
                sys.path.insert(0, dirpath)
                added.append(dirpath)
    return added


def remove_path(path):
    log.debug('Remove path %s' % path)
    if path in sys.path:
        sys.path.remove(path)