diff --git a/doc/en/customize.rst b/doc/en/customize.rst index d12a49037..2a61aa1ef 100644 --- a/doc/en/customize.rst +++ b/doc/en/customize.rst @@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ check for ini-files as follows:: .. _`how to change command line options defaults`: .. _`adding default options`: +Change which files are added to sys.path +----------------------------------------------- +To tell pytest which files you want it to run your tests against +place both your pytest.ini file and a conftest.py file in a directory +above both your test folder and source folder. By having a conftest.py +in the root directory of your project, you can tell pytest to modify +your sys.path when it runs to include all submodules below the root of +your project. + How to change command line options defaults ------------------------------------------------ @@ -155,7 +164,7 @@ Builtin configuration file options * matches everything ? matches any single character - [seq] matches any character in seq + [seq] matches any character inbu seq [!seq] matches any char not in seq Default patterns are ``'.*', 'build', 'dist', 'CVS', '_darcs', '{arch}', '*.egg'``.