Add support for capturing strings from factor variants (eg versions of deps)

[pytoxbot]

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/333
• Originally reported by: @edmorley
• Originally created at: 2016-05-17T15:03:39.945

For projects that use tox to test against multiple versions of deps, it's common to see this type of version repetition in deps:

[tox]
envlist =
    py{26,27}-pip{062,063,070,071,072,080,081,082,083},
    py{26,27,33,34,35}-pip{100,101,102,110,120,121,130,131,140,141,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,600,601,602,603,604,605,606,607,608,610,611,700,701,702,703,710,711,712,800,801,802,803,810,811,812}

deps =
    nose
    pip062: pip==0.6.2
    pip063: pip==0.6.3
    pip070: pip==0.7.0
    # ...
    pip811: pip==8.1.1
    pip812: pip==8.1.2

It would be great if instead the version component of the factor could be captured (almost regex group style) and re-used as part of the pip install command. ie:

[tox]
envlist =
    py{26,27}-pip{0.6.2,0.6.3,0.7.0,0.7.1,0.7.2,0.8.0,0.8.1,0.8.2,0.8.3},
    ...

deps =
    nose
    pip{*}: pip=={0}

Where {0} denotes the first group matched on the left (though I'm fine with just allowing only one match per line if that's easier).

This would also require supporting periods in the envlist strings, since tox currently strips out the non-alphanumeric characters (in the example above, tox -l lists py26-pip062 rather than the expected py26-pip0.6.2).

Apologies if this is filed already (or in fact possible with the current syntax), I've read the docs and search the tracker, but it's hard to know what search terms to use.

[gaborbernat]

Due to lack of activity on this issue, for now, we'll close this issue.