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Khalil Al Hooti
Khalil Al Hooti

Reputation: 4546

Pytest, How to make a temporary drive in a different location other than C drive: Windows

I am trying to create a temporary directory in a drive other than the C Drive using pytest.

The normal way to create a temporary drive ac according to my knowledge is as below:

@pytest.fixture
def copy_path_file(qtbot, request, tmpdir):
    """Setup Project widget."""
    directory = request.node.get_marker('change_directory')
    if directory:
        project_dir = to_text_string(tmpdir.mkdir('project'))
    else:
        project_dir = None

The temporary drive using this method is created in drive C. of the windows system drive, but I want to create a temporary drive in D, for example.

Does anyone have experience with pytest? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 369

Answers (1)

Xukrao
Xukrao

Reputation: 8644

From the pytest documentation:

The default base temporary directory

Temporary directories are by default created as sub-directories of the system temporary directory. The base name will be pytest-NUM where NUM will be incremented with each test run. Moreover, entries older than 3 temporary directories will be removed.

You can override the default temporary directory setting like this:

pytest --basetemp=mydir

When distributing tests on the local machine, pytest takes care to configure a basetemp directory for the sub processes such that all temporary data lands below a single per-test run basetemp directory.

Upvotes: 5

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