You can pass args through to all tests in a run with

./pants test <targets> -- <pytest args"

but not per-test

possibly you can use conftest.py to achieve what you need?

that is a standard pytest customization mechanism that Pants knows about and makes use of

Thinking about it, maybe my original question should be more like: Can I use a

pytest.ini

per-test?

But we're totally open to adding an

extra_cli_args

field to

python_test

, which would give you per-file control

A little heads up: we finally have to define a pytest bootstrapping hook

pytest_load_initial_conftests

since Nautobot does not use

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE

to load its configuration. As per the documentation, this hook will not be called for

conftest.py

files, only for setuptools plugins. To call a setuptools plugin, you need to use the

-p

argument on the command line. So using

conftest.py

as suggested won't work in this case and adding a field like

extra_cli_args

would be really helpful here. In the meantime, I found a workaround using

extra_env_vars

on the

python_tests

target like this:

python_tests(
    name="tests",
    dependencies=[
        ...,
        "src/python/pytest_nautobot",
    ],
    extra_env_vars=[
        ...,
        "PYTEST_ADDOPTS=-p pytest_nautobot"
    ]
)

Since I'm new to pants, let me know if this make sense or if there's a better way to pass pytest arguments to only a subset of tests.