Python testing

Related to the Testing sidepanel in VS Code for running tests.

Settings file

Create a Pytest testing config with VS Code and pick myproject (for myproject/tests) as the directory for tests. Or pick tests for tests at the repo root.

{
    "python.testing.pytestArgs": [
        "myproject"
    ],
    "python.testing.unittestEnabled": false,
    "python.testing.pytestEnabled": true
}

Dotenv

If your tests are in tests you can skip this.

If your tests are in myproject/tests and you want to import from within myproject, then you need changes.

You have to write imports from the repo root:

from myproject.abc.def import x

But if you configure this in .env:

PYTHONPATH=myproject:.venv

Then you can write your imports relative to the path above, so it recognizes the imports:

from abc.def import x