Pytest args --rootdir is broken

[FelixBenning]

Due to the usage of docker-compose my python app is in a subdirectory of the workspace therefore I want to do something like this:

  "python.testing.pytestArgs": [
    "--rootdir=/composeDir/app",
    "tests"
  ],
  "python.testing.cwd": /composeDir/app

but this does not work as expected. Since the --rootdir option is passed to pytest by default with the workspace location, vscode executes this

python /root/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.4.765268190/pythonFiles/testing_tools/run_adapter.py discover pytest -- --rootdir /composeDir -s --cache-clear /composeDir/manager

In other words the custom rootdir option becomes the argument and "tests" is completely ignored.

[karthiknadig]

Can you try separating the arguments? we might be trying to look for --rootdir.

"python.testing.pytestArgs": [
    "--rootdir",
    "/composeDir/app",
    "tests"
  ],

[g-as]

Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig) this is because rootdir is handled internally (see here), and thus it cannot be modified.

See #9553, #14795, #10827 (same type of issue)

[thomassajot]

I am also experiencing this issue (original issue #14795).
It would be great to have a solution or a workaround to this feature !

[leelhn2345]

I am also experiencing this issue (original issue #14795).
It would be great to have a solution or a workaround to this feature !

I'm having the same issue too. The current workaround that I found is having 'conftest.py' in the project root.