Importing correctly with pytest

Question

I just got set up to use pytest with Python 2.6. It has worked well so far with the exception of handling \"import\" statements: I can\'t seem to get pytest to respond to im

Answer 1

If you include an __init__.py file inside your tests directory, then when the program is looking to set a home directory it will walk 'upwards' until it finds one that does not contain an init file. In this case src/.

From here you can import by saying :

from geom.region import *

you must also make sure that you have an init file in any other subdirectories, such as the other nested test directory