ModuleNotFoundError with pytest

Question

I want my tests folder separate to my application code. My project structure is like so

myproject/
  myproject/
    myproject.py
    moduleone.py
  tests/
    my         


        

Answer 1

So it seems that the sys.path has to include the application directory rather than the project root folder containing the application directory and test directory.

So in my case /my/local/path/myproject/myproject/ had to be in sys.path rather than /my/local/path/myproject/.

Then I could run pytest in /my/local/path/myproject/ (didn't need python -m pytest). This meant that the modules within /myproject/myproject/ could find each other and the tests as well without any namespace nesting.

So my tests looked like

 from moduleone import ModuleOne
 import pytest

 def test_fun():
     assert ModuleOne.example_func() == True

That said, there seem to be many gotchas, so I have no idea if this is correct..