On 07/09/2018 04:34 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 13:48 -0400, Anya Harter wrote: > > +/tests/.pytest_cache > > When does the directory (or file?) get created? I just ran 'make > test' but it's not there for me. The tests/.pytest_cache/ directory is created when make check is run and the test suite fails. Additionally, a .pytest_cache/ directory is created in the home directory if ./run tests/<testfile> fails.

If you want I can give you a patch that breaks the test suite and creates the directories in the two ways above.

> Either way, this looks like it should be a more generic exclude > pattern like the one we already have for __pycache__ directories > instead of being limited to tests/.