tox doesn't work with pyrun

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/227
• Originally reported by: @malemburg
• Originally created at: 2015-03-11T19:59:51.254

When running tox, it sets up a virtualenv using the command line:

-mvirtualenv --setuptools --python py27

This works with CPython, but is not really in line with the documented use of the -m option:

-m mod : run library module as a script (terminates option list)

pyrun uses a different command line parser, since it has to emulate the CPython in Python and does not know how to handle options which use arguments without separating space.

Could this be changed to use "-m virtualenv" instead, to be in line with the Python documentation ?

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Original comment by @malemburg

Thanks, Holger. It works now :-)

Aside: I ran into this while trying to check a user error report for installing egenix-mx-base using tox. This gives intermittent installation errors, which I've not seen anywhere else. I'm still investigating this, since I'm not sure whether it's caused by the tox virtualenv setup or our web installer on PyPI.

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Original comment by @hpk42

you can try it with "pip install --pre -i https://devpi.net/hpk/dev tox" to get the dev version which incorporates the change.

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Original comment by @hpk42

fix issue227: use "-m virtualenv" instead of "-m virtualenv" to make
it work with pyrun.

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