Configuration Files - Add an option to read them from command line parameter or an environment variable

[pytestbot]

Originally reported by: Shay Weiss (BitBucket: lost_dm, GitHub: lost_dm)

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Use case: I would like to be able to run a simple "py.test" discovery from the root of the trunk and not have the configuration files clutter the root.

I would expect to be able to either supply a different path to configuration files than that of the discovery via a command line argument:
"py.test path/to/testdir -c path/to/configurationfile"

Alternately, I would like to have an environment variable which will be checked prior to "path/to/testdir".

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/174

[pytestbot]

Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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(Reply via hol...@merlinux.eu):

Hi Shay,

i agree this would be a very useful addition.

Holger

P.S.: also testing if bitbucket's issue-reply address routes my message to the issue ...

[pytestbot]

Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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Agreed, this looks worthwhile. Do you think you could checkout a dev version and try to implement the feature and a test yourself? (_pytest/config.py and testing/test_config.py will be the two relevant files to change i think).

[pytestbot]

Original comment by Shay Weiss (BitBucket: lost_dm, GitHub: lost_dm):

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(Reply via anot...@gmail.com):

That is exactly what I intend on doing this very week ^_^
I will update when it is done.

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:30 AM, holger krekel
issues-reply@bitbucket.orgwrote:

[pytestbot]

Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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still up for trying a patch?

[The-Compiler]

There is a -c argument nowadays, so I'm closing this.