Added a cwd test

IPython/nbconvert/tests/files/hello.py

@@ -0,0 +1,7 b''
+from IPython.nbconvert.writers.base import WriterBase
+
+class HelloWriter(WriterBase):
+
+    def write(self, output, resources, notebook_name=None, **kw):
+        with open('hello.txt', 'w') as outfile:
+            outfile.write('hello world')

IPython/nbconvert/tests/test_nbconvertapp.py

@@ -200,3 +200,12 b' class TestNbConvertApp(TestsBase):'
                             '--PDFPostProcessor.verbose=True')
             assert os.path.isfile(u'nb1_análisis.tex')
             assert os.path.isfile(u'nb1_análisis.pdf')
+
+    def test_cwd_plugin(self):
+        """
+        Verify that an extension in the cwd can be imported.
+        """
+        with self.create_temp_cwd(['hello.py']):
+            self.create_empty_notebook(u'empty.ipynb')
+            self.call('nbconvert empty --to html --NbConvertApp.writer_class=\'hello.HelloWriter\'')
+            assert os.path.isfile(u'hello.txt')