Hi everyone. I'm having the following problem on an app I'm developing.
I'm writing a software that uses the Pyperclip module. I'm using pytest for the tests. Everything worked well so far, as long as I run the tests via pytest. The thing is, I want to use Tox, and now things didn't work so well. When I run the tests via Tox, the following error happens on those tests that depend on pyperclip: self = <pyperclip.clipboards.init_no_clipboard.<locals>.ClipboardUnavailable object at 0xb6a2246c> args = ('Small sample of text in the clipboard.',), kwargs = {} def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs): > raise PyperclipException(EXCEPT_MSG) E pyperclip.exceptions.PyperclipException: E Pyperclip could not find a copy/paste mechanism for your system. E For more information, please visit https://pyperclip.readthedocs.org On Linux, the pyperclip module depends on the existence of a way to access the copy/paste mechanism. Either one of those works: xclip, xsel, GTK or PyQT4. I noticed that on my machine pyperclip is using xclip, so I tried these configurations on tox.ini: [testenv] deps = py pytest pyperclip pluggy commands = py.test -vv whitelist_externals = /usr/bin/xclip [testenv] deps = py pytest pyperclip pluggy commands = py.test -vv /usr/bin/xclip whitelist_externals = /usr/bin/xclip [testenv] deps = py pytest pyperclip pluggy commands = py.test -vv [testenv:Linux] whitelist_externals = /usr/bin/xclip None worked. What am I doing wrong? Here are the software versions: pyperclip 1.5.27 pytest 2.9.1 python 3.4.2 Debian with Gnome -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list