How do you setup test data when running parallel tests using Pabot

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So I changed my directory structure to look like this:
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The only way I can get pabot to run is like this:

pabot --processes 2 --pabotlib --resourcefile "my\ data\ files/users.dat" "my tests"

But then it gives the same error you got,

Anything else I’ve tried it gives me:

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'files/users.dat'

Indicating that it’s spitting the path on the spaces

When I renamed the path to the data file replacing the spaces with - like this:
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and running the command:

pabot --processes 2 --pabotlib --resourcefile my-data-files/users.dat "my tests"

It works, so it seems you can’t have a space in the path to the resource file, but spaces in the path to the tests is ok.

I couldn’t see an issue already logged for this, so I suggest you raise one:

[ERROR] PLEASE CONSIDER REPORTING THIS ISSUE TO https://github.com/mkorpela/pabot/issues

Then you’ll know when it gets fixed.

Dave.

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