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Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Running the tests is simple. Make sure you have pytest installed and run::

in the root directory of the repository.

pytest can be configured via a lot of `commandline parameters`_. Some
pytest can be configured via a lot of `command-line parameters`_. Some
particularly useful ones are:

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pytest --verbose -n 5

Depending on your version of Python and pytest-xdist, you may need to set
``PYTHONHASHSEED`` to a fixed value when running in parallel::

PYTHONHASHSEED=0 pytest --verbose -n 5

An alternative implementation that does not look at command line arguments
and works from within Python is to run the tests from the Matplotlib library
function :func:`matplotlib.test`::
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matplotlib.test()


.. _commandline parameters: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html
.. _command-line parameters: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html


Writing a simple test
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