Update July 29, 2017: updated to work on Windows and simplify configuration.

For debugging pytest executions, the official VSCode Python extension documentation recommends creating an additional file in your project, e.g.:

and setting up a launcher to start the debugger against it. While this is simple, I really don’t like having to modify my project’s code or add source files just to satisfy my editor/IDE.

So, to debug pytest without having to create an additional source file, setup a launcher configuration with the “program” option pointing to the “pytest” script itself, for instance:

In my case, I have a virtual environment setup in the root of the project (.virtualenv).… Read More...