running py.test

[hooman96]

I am using python 3.5 and installed the latest pytest package with pip install.

I noticed in order to run py.test when I had example.py in my directory, I had to mention example.py as one of the command arguments. The guide said we can simply run py.test but it says: collected 0 items.

[The-Compiler]

Where in which guide are you seeing that? It doesn't work in your case because your file is named example.py - pytest only picks up files named test_*.py by default.

[The-Compiler]

Closing this for now - if there's anything still unclear, feel free to ask!