Tests fail when trying relative conftest import

[offlinehacker]

tests/stores/conftest.py:7: in

from ..conftest import Base
E ValueError: Attempted relative import beyond toplevel package

I'm using pytest 2.3.5

How can i solve this? thanks!

[dahlia]

How did you run tests? We recommend you to use tox e.g.:

$ tox  # tests run on py26,py27,py32,py33, and pypy
$ tox -e py27,py33  # tests run on only py27 and py33
$ tox -- -k store  # `-k store` option is forwarded to py.test

[offlinehacker]

I'm making a package for linux distribution, more precisely nixos (it is
standard that if we can test a package, package is tested after build
phase). I tried both the standard setuptools "python setup.py test" and
"py.test", and both failed with same error. I'm testing only for a singe
python version, because we have different packages per python versions.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Hong Minhee [email protected]:

How did you run tests? We recommend you to use toxhttp://testrun.org/tox/e.g.:

$ tox # tests run on py26,py27,py32,py33, and pypy$ tox -e py27,py33 # tests run on only py27 and py33$ tox -- -k store # -k store option is forwarded to py.test

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/14#issuecomment-24813054
.

[dahlia]

Invoking py.test (without any arguments) must simply work. Did you happen to run tests in tests/ directory? It should be run at root of the source tree.

[offlinehacker]

I run it from root of the tree and i get this error. How could i debug this
any further?

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Hong Minhee [email protected]:

Invoking py.test (without any arguments) must simply work. Did you happen
to run tests in tests/ directory? It should be run at root of the source
tree.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/14#issuecomment-24830368
.

[offlinehacker]

And yes, i'm using python 2.7

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jaka Hudoklin [email protected]:

I run it from root of the tree and i get this error. How could i debug
this any further?

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Hong Minhee [email protected]:

Invoking py.test (without any arguments) must simply work. Did you
happen to run tests in tests/ directory? It should be run at root of the
source tree.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/14#issuecomment-24830368
.

[dahlia]

I just noticed that the error type is not ImportError but ValueError. Can I see the more detailed trackback? Try -vv option.

[offlinehacker]

Okay here is the whole backtrace:

============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.5 -- pytest-2.3.5 -- /nix/store/1i5rd0mp4x57gzjii9z2pg3mjgzj95q6-python-2.7.5/bin/python2.7
collecting ... collected 0 items / 1 errors

==================================== ERRORS ====================================
______________________________ ERROR collecting . ______________________________
/nix/store/r845pd45751jzbi1fg8dng571hpfpmh6-python2.7-py-1.4.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py-1.4.13-py2.7.egg/py/_path/common.py:315: in visit
>       for x in Visitor(fil, rec, ignore, bf, sort).gen(self):
/nix/store/r845pd45751jzbi1fg8dng571hpfpmh6-python2.7-py-1.4.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py-1.4.13-py2.7.egg/py/_path/common.py:361: in gen
>               for p in self.gen(subdir):
/nix/store/r845pd45751jzbi1fg8dng571hpfpmh6-python2.7-py-1.4.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py-1.4.13-py2.7.egg/py/_path/common.py:351: in gen
>                   if p.check(dir=1) and (rec is None or rec(p))])
/nix/store/f5g5l96afv66zqr34n3krswc7wzq1mf0-python2.7-pytest-2.3.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest-2.3.5-py2.7.egg/_pytest/main.py:548: in _recurse
>       ihook.pytest_collect_directory(path=path, parent=self)
/nix/store/f5g5l96afv66zqr34n3krswc7wzq1mf0-python2.7-pytest-2.3.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest-2.3.5-py2.7.egg/_pytest/main.py:158: in call_matching_hooks
>       plugins = self.config._getmatchingplugins(self.fspath)
/nix/store/f5g5l96afv66zqr34n3krswc7wzq1mf0-python2.7-pytest-2.3.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest-2.3.5-py2.7.egg/_pytest/config.py:319: in _getmatchingplugins
>       plugins += self._conftest.getconftestmodules(fspath)
/nix/store/f5g5l96afv66zqr34n3krswc7wzq1mf0-python2.7-pytest-2.3.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest-2.3.5-py2.7.egg/_pytest/config.py:214: in getconftestmodules
>                       clist.append(self.importconftest(conftestpath))
/nix/store/f5g5l96afv66zqr34n3krswc7wzq1mf0-python2.7-pytest-2.3.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest-2.3.5-py2.7.egg/_pytest/config.py:243: in importconftest
>           self._conftestpath2mod[conftestpath] = mod = conftestpath.pyimport()
/nix/store/r845pd45751jzbi1fg8dng571hpfpmh6-python2.7-py-1.4.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py-1.4.13-py2.7.egg/py/_path/local.py:548: in pyimport
>           __import__(modname)
tests/stores/conftest.py:7: in <module>
>   from ..conftest import Base
E   ValueError: Attempted relative import beyond toplevel package

Sorry for wierd paths, but that is how nix package manager works (stores everything under /nix/store/hash+package_name).

[dahlia]

Could you paste the output of tree command from root of the source tree as well?

[offlinehacker]

Okay i think i now see the problem too, looks like not all files are included in pypi archive. For now i will just switch to git as a source, but it would be nice to include missing files.

Here is output of tree, right after failed tests. Sorry for those ugly chars, terminal copy makes problems.

.
��� build
�   ��� bdist.linux-x86_64
�   ��� lib
�       ��� sqlalchemy_imageattach
�           ��� context.py
�           ��� entity.py
�           ��� file.py
�           ��� __init__.py
�           ��� migration.py
�           ��� store.py
�           ��� stores
�           �   ��� fs.py
�           �   ��� __init__.py
�           �   ��� s3.py
�           ��� util.py
�           ��� version.py
��� PKG-INFO
��� README.rst
��� setup.cfg
��� setup.py
��� sqlalchemy_imageattach
�   ��� context.py
�   ��� entity.py
�   ��� file.py
�   ��� __init__.py
�   ��� __init__.pyc
�   ��� migration.py
�   ��� store.py
�   ��� stores
�   �   ��� fs.py
�   �   ��� __init__.py
�   �   ��� s3.py
�   ��� util.py
�   ��� version.py
�   ��� version.pyc
��� SQLAlchemy_ImageAttach.egg-info
�   ��� dependency_links.txt
�   ��� PKG-INFO
�   ��� requires.txt
�   ��� SOURCES.txt
�   ��� top_level.txt
��� temp
��� tests
    ��� stores
        ��� conftest.py
        ��� conftest.pyc
        ��� fs_test.py
        ��� __init__.py
        ��� __init__.pyc
        ��� s3_test.py

[dahlia]

That’s indeed problematic, so I will include these missing files as well. Thanks!