Can I put nosetests command-line options in a configuration file?

Question

I'd like to put the command-line options I prefer for nosetests into a file, so they'll travel with my repo. The docs are unclear, at best, or maybe just wrong, about how this can be done.

nose's documentation mentions a ".noserc or nose.cfg file" but when I added the following to either of them, nothing changes-

[nosetests]
nocapture=1
verbosity=3

These are the equivalent of nosetests -vvv --nocapture .

Answer 1

setup.cfg is a third filename that nosetests recognizes as a source for project-level command-line options. nosetests looks in the current folder for setup.cfg , and .noserc or nose.cfg in your home directory.

The docs " .noserc or nose.cfg " in the first paragraph, but doesn't mention setup.cfg until deeper in the page.