{envsitepackagesdir} doesn't substitute site-packages dir of tox's testenv

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/119
• Originally reported by: @bhodorog
• Originally created at: 2013-08-21T11:50:49.088

Steps to reproduce

Create the following virtenv (==1.10.1)

virtualenv buggytox
buggytox/bin/pip install tox

The final virtenv should look like:

$ buggytox/bin/pip list
pip (1.4.1)
py (1.4.15)
setuptools (0.9.8)
tox (1.6.0)
virtualenv (1.10.1)
wsgiref (0.1.2)

Create a dummy project.

mkdir dummy
echo "from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name="dummy",
    version="0.1",
    packages=find_packages(),
)" > dummy/setup.py

echo '[tox]
envlist = buggy

[testenv:buggy]
commands = python -c 'print {envsitepackagesdir}' > dummy/tox.ini

Run tox

cd dummy
tox

Expected

'.tox/buggytox/lib/python-xx/site-packages' is displayed

Actual

the 'buggytox/lib/python-xx/site-packages' is diplayed

Context

I came across this issue trying to have my tests run with py.tests. I opted having the tests included in the package and I was trying to follow manual instructions. I was expecting the {envsitepackagesdir} substitution will point to the [testenv:xx] site-packages dir. Infact I got the parent context site-packages dir which basically will render the method proposed in the forementioned link useless

The test code here for {envsitepackagesdir} subt is also quite generic, just checks a path containing 'site-packages' is obtained.

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Original comment by @bhodorog

@hpk42 I've tried it with tox-1.6.1 installed from your dev index. Looks perfect.

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Original comment by @bhodorog

Thx, I can see it was ... tough :). I'm angry I haven't look closer, I could have fix it myself .... next time maybe ;).

Sure I will. I'll let you know.

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Original comment by @hpk42

Hi Bogdan,

i think i fixed this. Could you verify by installing from my
development index?

pip install -i http://devpi.net/hpk/dev/+simple/ -U tox

should give you a tox-1.6.1 release candidate which has the fix.

thanks,
holger

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Original comment by @hpk42

fix issue119: sitepackagesdir now correctly points to virtualenv dir, not tox's own. also added a test to prevent regression.

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