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authorholger krekel <holger@merlinux.eu>2015-06-18 16:07:12 +0200
committerholger krekel <holger@merlinux.eu>2015-06-18 16:07:12 +0200
commit0c82e9c32d2f0b1209967f774325f0f780f83e97 (patch)
tree483d1430c17837a114dc1fa641d5319cd51510ee /tox/config.py
parentc29c60b2d5d422b50882c0788e17a8f6d7fe1f56 (diff)
downloadtox-0c82e9c32d2f0b1209967f774325f0f780f83e97.tar.gz
allow all env variables during installation of dependencies
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tox/config.py b/tox/config.py
index 52e0dbc..9026f28 100644
--- a/tox/config.py
+++ b/tox/config.py
@@ -409,8 +409,11 @@ def tox_addoption(parser):
parser.add_testenv_attribute(
name="passenv", type="space-separated-list", postprocess=passenv,
- help="environment variables names which shall be passed "
- "from tox invocation to test environment when executing commands.")
+ help="environment variables needed during executing test commands "
+ "(taken from invocation environment). Not that tox always "
+ "passes in some basic environment variables which are needed for "
+ "basic functioning of the Python interpreter. See --showconfig "
+ "for the resulting passenv setting.")
parser.add_testenv_attribute(
name="whitelist_externals", type="line-list",