Nose test script with command line arguments

Question

I would like to be able to run a nose test script which accepts command line arguments. For example, something along the lines:

test.py

import nose, sys
         


        

Answer 1

Just running nose and passing in parameters will not work as nose will attempt to interpret the arguments as nose parameters so you get the problems you are seeing.

I do not think nose support parameter passing directly yet but this nose plug-in nose-testconfig Allows you to write tests like below:

from testconfig import config
def test_os_specific_code():
    os_name = config['os']['type']
    if os_name == 'nt':
        pass # some nt specific tests
    else:
        pass # tests for any other os