Reference project root directory?

[Mrodent]

pytest is wonderful, thanks to all.

I just have a small question: is there any way of identifying, in the context of tests, the project root directory, by which I mean the directory with the src and tests directories? The problem being that you can run pytest ... from anywhere, be it the root directory or anywhere under [root]/tests, and that location then appears to become the CWD.

Incidentally, in order to exclude a directory under my root directory from test discovery searching, I found that I had to put a pytest.ini in that root directory... which then also seemed to alter the location of the CWD (always making it the root directory).

So it can be a bit of a rigmarole to find where the root directory may actually be in relation to the CWD, and I just wonder whether there's a simple way of obtaining that root directory path.

[bluetech]

You should get the pytestconfig fixture, then it's pytestconfig.rootpath (it's a pathlib.Path instance). This returns the rootdir.

[Mrodent]

Thanks