pytest.cleandir

maite.testing.pytest.cleandir()

A pytest fixture that runs a test in a temporary directory as the current working directory.

This is helpful for running tests that require file I/O that could pollute local directories. File cleanup is handled automatically.

Yields:

tmpdirnamestr

Temporary directory name that will be removed at fixture teardown

Examples

This assumes that cleandir has been imported by the test suite’s conftest.py file.

>>> import pytest
>>> @pytest.mark.usefixtures("cleandir")
... def test_writes_some_file():
...     from pathlib import Path
...     Path("dummy.txt").touch()  # file will be written to a tmp dir