Change tox workdir

Question

Looking on the tox global settings section from tox documentation, the .tox directory which is working dir, is created in directory where tox.ini is located:

toxworkdir={toxinidir}/.tox(PATH)
    Directory for tox to generate its environments into, will be created if 
    it does not exist.

Is there a way to change this location?

For instance, I have a project as follows:

awesome_project/
├── main.py
├── src
│   └── app.py
└── tox.ini

I want to execute tox.ini from awesome_project dir, but want to write .tox dir in /tmp/.tox not in awesome_project/.tox.

Thanks for help.

phd · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-25 18:40:15Z

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{toxinidir}/.tox is just a default value that you can change in tox.ini:

[tox]
toxworkdir=/tmp/.tox

answered Sep 25, 2018 at 18:40

phd

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Thanks a lot. It's working. There is also possible set this location per specific environment using envdir variavle.
– brxie
Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 8:00
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If you have two unrelated projects which use the same toxworkdir, this will cause you trouble. And all files in /tmp get removed after a reboot (at least on linux). I would suggest /var/tmp/MY_PROJECT/.tox
– guettli
Commented Aug 4, 2022 at 7:55

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Erel Segal-Halevi · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-07 19:10:10Z

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You can change the working directory from the command line:

tox --workdir /tmp/.tox

It may be useful if you want to use the same tox.ini file in two different computers with different working directories.

answered Nov 7, 2021 at 19:10

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