Nosetests not reading the config file

Question

.noserc

[nosetests]
with-xunit

Runnig the nosetest using the following command

nosetests -w ./test/unit_test

When I run the test using nosetests it does not create a nosetests.xml file. But if I run the command below it does generate the nosetests.xml file.

nosetests -w ./test/unit_test --with-xunit

Not sure why it is not reading the .noserc file when I run nosetests.

Answer 1

You can either have a .noserc file in your user/home directory, or you can have a file of the same format in your project directory under the name setup.cfg

Answer 2

Adding the configuration file to the home directory did the trick.

~/.noserc