Pytest throwing import errors in source file

[haroon9]

I have a source file that I want to test but I am getting import errors when I run the test. I am using an anaconda environment for the project. I have added the init.py in both the source directory as well as test directory.

My source file looks like this:

from pda.utils.generics import get_project_path

project_dir = get_project_path()


def add(a, b):
    return a + b

If I comment out the line project_dir = get_project_path() then the test runs fine without any errors else I get the below errors with the line uncommented.

tests/test_test.py:4: in <module>
    from src.functions.calc2 import *
src/functions/calc2.py:3: in <module>
    project_dir = get_project_path()
/conda_envs/test_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pda/utils/generics.py:253: in get_project_path
    config = get_config(path=None, dir_to_find="conf", sub_dir_to_find="base")
/conda_envs/test_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pda/utils/generics.py:285: in get_config
    tmp_path = os.path.join(tmp_path, name)
/conda_envs/test_env/lib/python3.6/posixpath.py:80: in join
    a = os.fspath(a)
E   TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType
===================================================================== short test summary info ======================================================================
ERROR tests/test_test.py - TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 error during collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My test file looks like this:

from src.functions.calc2 import *

# test 1
def test_add():
    assert add(1, 2) == 3

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

This happens in user code, unrelated to pytest

[haroon9]

It happens only when the test is executed. If the source module is executed alone then no such exceptions are raised.