Python Testing with pytest

Creating a Distribution

Believe it or not, we are almost done with our plugin. From the command line, we can use this setup.py file to create a distribution:

$ cd /path/to/code/ch5/pytest-nice
$ python setup.py sdist
running sdist
running egg_info
creating pytest_nice.egg-info
...
running check
creating pytest-nice-0.1.0
...
creating dist
Creating tar archive
...
$ ls dist
pytest-nice-0.1.0.tar.gz

(Note that sdist stands for “source distribution.”)

Within pytest-nice, a dist directory contains a new file called pytest-nice-0.1.0.tar.gz. This file can now be used anywhere to install our plugin, even in place:

$ pip install dist/pytest-nice-0.1.0.tar.gz
Processing ./dist/pytest-nice-0.1.0.tar.gz ...