From a73e349242517ece64ac8de0922e3e122609ec4f 2013-06-29 14:36:28
From: Victor Zverovich <victor.zverovich@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-06-29 14:36:28
Subject: [PATCH] Use absolute path to iptest, because the tests are not always run from $IPYTHONDIR.
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diff --git a/IPython/testing/iptest.py b/IPython/testing/iptest.py
index 2c93f5f..3f8decc 100644
--- a/IPython/testing/iptest.py
+++ b/IPython/testing/iptest.py
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ class IPTester(object):
         """Create new test runner."""
         p = os.path
         if runner == 'iptest':
-            iptest_app = get_ipython_module_path('IPython.testing.iptest')
+            iptest_app = os.path.abspath(get_ipython_module_path('IPython.testing.iptest'))
             self.runner = pycmd2argv(iptest_app) + sys.argv[1:]
         else:
             raise Exception('Not a valid test runner: %s' % repr(runner))