Can I run django tests (manage.py) from a different directory?

Question

I have a pretty standard Django test case setup (I think)

api-name
    manage.py
    api-name
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        wsgi.py
    v0
        project
            stuff.py
            tests
                test_stuff.py

manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "api-name.settings")

    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

wsgi.py

import sys
import os
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "api-name.settings")

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()

test_stuff.py

from django.test import TestCase
from v0.project.stuff import *


class ProjectTestCase(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        # set stuff up

    def test_project_stuff(self):
        # test stuff

    def test_other_stuff(self):
        # test stuff

Here's what happens when I execute tests:

[cwilbur api-name]$ ./manage.py test
Creating test database for alias 'default'...
..
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.014s

OK
Destroying test database for alias 'default'...
[cwilbur api-name]$ cd ..
[cwilbur source]$ ./api-name/manage.py test
Creating test database for alias 'default'...

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.000s

OK
Destroying test database for alias 'default'...

Is this (tests run from the project's root directory, but not from elsewhere) expected behavior? Is there a way to change things so that it will work (I want to execute my tests from a pre-commit hook in a different directory)?

I tried adding from tests import * from this answer, but it didn't help. I also tried moving the sys.path.append line from wsgi.py to manage.py, but that didn't help either.

Any other ideas out there I can try?

Answer 1

Late in answering this question. But hope this helps someone:

python <project_path>/manage.py test <your_project_dir>

From Django documentation:

You can also provide a path to a directory to discover tests below that directory:

$ ./manage.py test animals/

References:

1. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/overview/#running-tests
2. https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#test-discovery

Answer 2

Based on the comments from @dizballanze and feedback from review of the code, I wound up doing this:

(cd /somedir && python manage.py test)

I'm still curious as to whether it's possible to run the tests without cding into the root directory of the project, though.