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Merge pull request #2850 from bilderbuchi/docs-911 

Add documentation about python -m pytest invocation.
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Add documentation about the ``python -m pytest`` invocation adding the current directory to sys.path.

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This is also discussed in details in :ref:`test discovery`.
Invoking ``pytest`` versus ``python -m pytest``
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Running pytest with ``python -m pytest [...]`` instead of ``pytest [...]`` yields nearly
equivalent behaviour, except that the former call will add the current directory to ``sys.path``.
See also :ref:`cmdline`.

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python -m pytest [...]
This is almost equivalent to invoking the command line script ``pytest [...]``
directly, except that Python will also add the current directory to ``sys.path``.
directly, except that calling via ``python`` will also add the current directory to ``sys.path``.
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