pytest-dev / pytest-dev/pytest-xdist
Enable configuring numprocesses's default `tx` command
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Description
Over the years I've used and introduced xdist whenever possibly to speed up pytest runs.
Usually just using the -n X notation was sufficient. But in our current application, we have to use the --tx notation to ensure we're using eventlet.
--tx '4*popen//execmodel=eventlet'
This is a lot to type if you 'just' want to speed up tests. And combining it with -n reverts it to just using popen.
Ideally I'd configuring it to default to using popen//execmodel=eventlet and then up the processes using -n X notation.
So my feature request would be:
Enable configuring what 'executing method' -n actually uses. With popen being the default.
So that in your pytest.ini you can do something like this:
[pytest]
addopts = --default-tx popen//execmodel=eventlet
And then can add more worker as desired with the -n notation.
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Start by tracing how pytest-xdist handles the -n and --tx options, including values supplied through pytest.ini addopts. Define the configuration for a default execution method, preserve popen as the default, and verify that -n X creates the requested number of workers using that method.
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