Backslashes doesn't work when specifying the paths with python.testing.unittestArgs

[karrtikr]

The following discovers the tests,

  "python.testing.unittestArgs": [
    "-v",
    "-s",
    "C:/Users/karraj/Desktop/Desktop/test_demo/src",
    "-p",
    "*test*.py"
  ],

whereas

  "python.testing.unittestArgs": [
    "-v",
    "-s",
    "C:\\Users\\karraj\\Desktop\\Desktop\\test_demo\\src",
    "-p",
    "*test*.py"
  ],

doesn't.

[eleanorjboyd]

@karthiknadig and @karrtikr, thinking one of you could help here. Is the issue that this file path formatting is not supported and on windows it should be supported? What is the step to fix this here, do I have to pass the paths as different types of evaluate them before sending them to pytest?

[karthiknadig]

@eleanorjboyd This might just be a case of using pathlib to process the path and generate the string that works for unittest. We can talk about this in more detail when you work on this bug.