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 notifications@github.comwrote:

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/crosspop/sqlalchemy-imageattach/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 notifications@github.comwrote:

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/crosspop/sqlalchemy-imageattach/issues/14#issuecomment-24830368 .

[offlinehacker]

And yes, i'm using python 2.7

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jaka Hudoklin jakahudoklin@gmail.comwrote:

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 notifications@github.comwrote:

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/crosspop/sqlalchemy-imageattach/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!