Debug pytests in emacs

Question

I try to debug my pytest-cases like this:

import pytest

def test_something()
    ...
    ...
    pytest.set_trace()

Then, i execute the tests by running elpy-test. The test starts to run and stops at pytest.set_trace() - unfortunately the compilation buffer is non-interactive and I'm stuck with a debugger that I can't use...

What's the right way to run tests in the debugger, using emacs?

sivakov512 · Answer 1 · 2017-09-06T06:35:30.787

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I think that there are only the following solutions:

Run tests outside of Emacs from your terminal emulator
Run tests from realgud
Run tests inside Emacs via eshell. But shell output may be corrupted, so this not a good solution
Run tests with pytest-el. It works good, but without autocompletion.

edited Sep 06 '17 at 06:35

answered Jun 27 '17 at 13:54

sivakov512

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I've installed and tried realgut. It's nice, but I don't understand how I can use it to solve my problem :s – Markus Jun 29 '17 at 11:50
Run your tests with realgud :) For example you can run tests from Emacs shell and attach it to realgud session. – sivakov512 Jun 29 '17 at 11:53
I added information about `pytest-el` to my answer. – sivakov512 Sep 06 '17 at 06:37

Debug pytests in emacs

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