basedir not being added when the tests dir doesn't have an __init__.py file

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Originally reported by: Leonardo Santagada (BitBucket: santagada, GitHub: santagada)

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if the tests is a subdirectory of my module and it doesn't have an init.py py.test doesn't add the correct basedir to sys.path.

I think the correct logic would be to check and if the directory to be used as basedir has as its parent a directory with an init.py it should go deeper... okay I wasn't very clear here, but what I want is to be able to have tests dir that is not importable and doesn't need to have a init.py

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/55

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

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can you provide an example? I would think that it should already work like you describe.

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Original comment by Anonymous:

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In this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3117862/pytestcase.zip

if you run py.test inside the pytestcase directory it doesnt insert pytestcase to the path, but if you put a init.py in the test dir it does. In nose both work as expected (the basedir is found and added to sys.path).

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Original comment by Leonardo Santagada (BitBucket: santagada, GitHub: santagada):

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the last comment was me... I forgot to log on.

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

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don't think we should copy nose behabviour here. Can't you or don't you want to add a setup.py which provides "setup.py develop" for this to work? If not, why not?

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Original comment by Ronny Pfannschmidt (BitBucket: RonnyPfannschmidt, GitHub: RonnyPfannschmidt):

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can we close this one?

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

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Duplicate of #54.