posargs can't be found except in very specific ways, is not curently documented either

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/307
• Originally reported by: @zzzeek
• Originally created at: 2016-01-24T19:33:03.147

possibly related to #150, i can't use {posargs} even in "commands=" if any other substitution are present.

Using tox 2.3.1, and the commandline here is just to try to list the environments:

$ tox -c some_tox.ini -l

For all examples, failure looks like:

#!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/classic/.venv/bin/tox", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(cmdline())
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/session.py", line 38, in main
    config = prepare(args)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/session.py", line 26, in prepare
    config = parseconfig(args)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 229, in parseconfig
    parseini(config, inipath)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 729, in __init__
    self.make_envconfig(name, section, reader._subs, config)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 760, in make_envconfig
    res = meth(env_attr.name, env_attr.default)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 929, in getargvlist
    return _ArgvlistReader.getargvlist(self, s)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1097, in getargvlist
    replaced = reader._replace(current_command)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 973, in _replace
    return Replacer(self, crossonly=crossonly).do_replace(value)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 992, in do_replace
    return self.RE_ITEM_REF.sub(self._replace_match, x)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1021, in _replace_match
    return self._replace_substitution(match)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1067, in _replace_substitution
    val = self._substitute_from_other_section(sub_key)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1058, in _substitute_from_other_section
    crossonly=self.crossonly)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 973, in _replace
    return Replacer(self, crossonly=crossonly).do_replace(value)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 992, in do_replace
    return self.RE_ITEM_REF.sub(self._replace_match, x)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1021, in _replace_match
    return self._replace_substitution(match)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1067, in _replace_substitution
    val = self._substitute_from_other_section(sub_key)
  File "/home/classic/.venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/config.py", line 1061, in _substitute_from_other_section
    "substitution key %r not found" % key)
tox.ConfigError: ConfigError: substitution key 'posargs' not found

Example 1, fails:

#!

[tox]
envlist = py{26,27,34,35}-sqla_{cext,nocext}-db_{default,sqlitepg,mysql,oracle,mssql}

[testenv]
basecommand=
  python -m pytest -n4 --dropfirst  {posargs}

commands=
  db_{mysql}: {[testenv]basecommand} --db mysql --db pymysql

Example 2, fails:

#!

[tox]
envlist = py{26,27,34,35}-sqla_{cext,nocext}-db_{default,sqlitepg,mysql,oracle,mssql}

[testenv]
basecommand=
  python -m pytest -n4 --dropfirst

commands=
  db_{mysql}: {[testenv]basecommand} --db mysql --db pymysql {posargs}

Example 3, passes:

#!

[tox]
envlist = py{26,27,34,35}-sqla_{cext,nocext}-db_{default,sqlitepg,mysql,oracle,mssql}

[testenv]

commands=
  db_{mysql}: python -m pytest -n4 --dropfirst --db mysql --db pymysql {posargs}

it would be nice if {posargs} just worked everywhere.

Also, current documentation at https://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html does not describe the {posargs} token by itself, there's just the docs about {posargs:DEFAULT} which seems to be something else.

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Original comment by aostr123

Add test for issue #307

This adds a test to address the second example in issue #307, the
first example is already addressed.

Closes issue #307

→ <<cset 62c553e32ce9>>

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Original comment by @nakato

Example 1 is the same as #279.

Example 2 is fixed by #279, and I'll add a test for that.
PR#195

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Original comment by @zzzeek

it looks pretty similar, though my test case is different; #279 is attempting to move {posargs} as part of a variable that's interpreted elsewhere, while mine is doing something simpler, adding {posargs} in place to a line that happens to include variables from elsewhere. While the fix for both might be the same I'd hope that all of these combinations are tested.

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Original comment by @sigmavirus24

This looks to be a duplicate of #279