> that case watchmedo will trigger pytest to run twice, That's what the --drop options is for. It's better than delay, since it drops any event while the comm

> that case watchmedo will trigger pytest to run twice, That's what the --drop options is for. It's better than delay, since it drops any event while the command is running, no matter the time it took. > First, I think for many users typing: ... is a lot simpler than typing:... I think somebody using pytest is perfectly capable of doing: alias ptw='watchmedo shell-command --patterns="*.py" --ignore-directories --recursive . -c "pytest" --drop' Or putting that in a makefile, a dodo.py file or what have you.