Selecting a test by its node id not documented

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Originally reported by: Jurko Gospodnetić (BitBucket: jurko, GitHub: jurko)

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Selecting a test by its node id is not documented anywhere.

This issue has been extracted out of issue #387 because the original issue got marked as resolved. The following is a copy/paste of a related message in the original issue:

In this specific case one can already select just a single test by
using the node ID. Assuming these live in the test_foo file:

py.test -v test_foo::TestAlice::test_foo

or

py.test -v test_foo::TestAlice

work fine.

And to find out the node IDs one can use --collectonly.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jurko Gospodnetić

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/499

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Original comment by Floris Bruynooghe (BitBucket: flub, GitHub: flub):

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Merged in rouge8/pytest/issue499 (pull request #157)

fix issue499: document selecting tests by node ID

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Original comment by Floris Bruynooghe (BitBucket: flub, GitHub: flub):

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Merged in rouge8/pytest/issue499 (pull request #157)

fix issue499: document selecting tests by node ID

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Original comment by Floris Bruynooghe (BitBucket: flub, GitHub: flub):

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fix issue499: document selecting tests by node ID