Test discovery failure when tests in different directories are called the same

Question

Using py.test, two tests called the same in different directory causes py.test to fail. Why is that? How can I change this without renaming all the tests?

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Answer 1

You can add the following environment variable to your bash init file or somewhere else in your development stack to avoid these folders/files being generated in the first place

export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1