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Windows and Cygwin __pycache__ entries conflict
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platform: windows
topic: rewrite
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Description
If I want to check same version of windows and cygwin flavour of python one that's tested later always fail.
Removing of __pycache__ directories helps.
Error is like this:
# python -m pytest tests/test_cli.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_pytest/config.py", line 362, in _importconftest
mod = conftestpath.pyimport()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_path/local.py", line 680, in pyimport
raise self.ImportMismatchError(modname, modfile, self)
ImportMismatchError: ('conftest', 'C:\\src\\project\\tests\\conftest.py', local('/src/github/project/tests/conftest.py'))
ERROR: could not load /src/project/tests/conftest.py
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure with python -m pytest tests/test_cli.py using Windows and Cygwin Python environments, then inspect the reported tests/conftest.py import mismatch and __pycache__ behavior. Done means both environments can run the same test suite without one environment's cached entries causing the other to fail.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- operating-systems, testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100