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Change tox workdir

Looking on the tox global settings section from tox documentation, the .tox directory which is working dir, is created in directory where tox.ini is located:

toxworkdir={toxinidir}/.tox(PATH)
    Directory for tox to generate its environments into, will be created if 
    it does not exist.

Is there a way to change this location?

For instance, I have a project as follows:

awesome_project/
├── main.py
├── src
│   └── app.py
└── tox.ini

I want to execute tox.ini from awesome_project dir, but want to write .tox dir in /tmp/.tox not in awesome_project/.tox.

Thanks for help.

Solution

  • {toxinidir}/.tox is just a default value that you can change in tox.ini:

    [tox]
toxworkdir=/tmp/.tox