document disabling byte-code writing via conftest

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

when developing projects that are subject to change,
its easy to forget to remove stale pyc files,

thus i propose adding a ini option that sets sys.dont_write_bytecode before importing the first conftest

[pytest]
dont_write_bytecode = true

[nicoddemus]

Hey Ronny, in which situations one would get stale .pyc files? Python doesn't take care of that automatically?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

delete a module, have a pyc around, imports wont fail

[nicoddemus]

Ohhh I see, thanks.

Couldn't the user just call that at the top of the root contest file?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

experimenting with that now, we might want to document it

[SanketDG]

@RonnyPfannschmidt I would be interested in doing this.

Do we want to implement this as a ini setting? Or just document it?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

it should be documented for use with conftest