Question

Rather than running my nose tests from the command line, I’m using a test runner that sets up a few things for all the tests, including a connection to a local test instance of MongoDB. The documentation for nose only seems to indicate how to pass options through the command line or a configuration file located in your home directory. Is there a way to pass options, such as –with-xunit when using a script to run your tests?

Answer 1

Like this:

import nose

argv = ['fake', '--with-xunit']
nose.main(argv=argv)

The “fake” argument must be added to stand in for the executable name, as described in dbw’s answer.