is there any way to modify the pytest path?

this is the way Pants resolves the address (passed on the cli args) into targets. Pants sees "tests/" as relative to the cwd. see https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/targets#target-addresses I think you want it relative to the repository root, you can prepend "//" to the path. so

pants test //tests/

. You might also need to test all targets recursively, so something like

pants test //tests::

or even just

pants test ::

You seems misunderstand my situation.

oh, indeed. I'm not sure if Pants has a mechanism for that. Is the main goal to change the PYTHONPATH or to change the cwd or something else?

Yes, I need a mechanism to change the cwd to make the pytest work

Hm, I'm honestly not sure. I can't check right now, but source roots might help? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/source-roots

It don't help.

you could have a pytest fixture in a

conftest.py

file with auto-use that does the cwd when starting the test run.