py.test: error: unrecognized arguments: --cov=ner_brands --cov-report=term-missing --cov-config

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Hello lad picture Hello lad · Oct 27, 2014 · Viewed 33.3k times · Source

when I am trying to run my test through command line

py.test  file_name.py

I got this error:

py.test: error: unrecognized arguments: --cov=ner_brands --cov-report=term-missing --cov-config

How can I fix this?

Answer

sdonk picture sdonk · Oct 27, 2014

pytest-cov package is required if you want to pass --cov arguments to pytest, by default it should not be passed though. Are you using a modified version of py.test?

pip install pytest-cov

would fix your issue.

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