How can I ignore all tests in a specific folder using nose?

Question

I have many unit tests organized in the following manner:

test_dir/
  test_important1.py
  test_important2.py
  test_important3.py
  ....
  basic tests/testA1.py
              testA2.py
              ....
              __init__.py

I want to run all test in the test_dir directory itself, not including tests found at basic tests.

How can this be achieved?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There is an --exclude-dir option introduced by nose-exclude:

nosetests --exclude-dir="basic tests/"