How do I run tox in a project that has no setup.py?

After digging inside the source code, I found a scarcely documented option in tox.ini that skips sdist:

[tox]skipsdist = BOOL    # defaults to false

Setting this to True I got what I wanted, saving me the effort of writing a meaningful setup.py

If you have an application (with a requirements.txt), rather than a project that you are going to distribute (which would have a setup.py instead), your tox.ini should look something like this:

[tox]skipsdist = True[testenv]deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt

Found this answer originally from David Murphy's blog, but the page is no longer available, you can find an archived version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150112223937/https://blog.schwuk.com/2014/03/19/using-tox-django-projects/

(Original link, now dead: http://blog.schwuk.com/2014/03/19/using-tox-django-projects/ )

This is my tox.ini file content for Django project by multiple settings:

[tox]envlist = py36-{accounting,content,media}_settingsskipsdist = true[testenv]commands = python {toxinidir}/manage.py testdeps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txtsetenv =    accounting_settings: DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_project.settings.accounting    contents_settings: DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_project.settings.contents    media_settings: DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_project.settings.media