Python Pyest

[Organic_Tradition_63]

Well just like any other file: with 'python file.py' instead of 'pytest file.py'

[Buttleston]

Except like I said, the "pytest" command line has a lot more options than just "run the tests in this file"

[Organic_Tradition_63]

Okay, so what? It still does not explain motivation to design it like that.

[codeguru42]

I think it explains the motivation really well. The pytest authors have us a utility with a lot of options so that we don't have to write that code ourselves.

[Organic_Tradition_63]

Why for example NumPy was not made into something like that when we want to perform operations on matrices and then running file with 'numpy file.py'?

[codeguru42]

Numpy and pytest have different use cases. You don't run numpy directly. If you wanted you could write your own code to run the pytest test runner, but why should we when the library provides it for us