Update gitignore and contributing notes

akalongman · Oct 30, 2017 · 34b3848 · 34b3848 · viewsafe · May 1, 2024
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 .fuse_*
 .idea/
 .cache
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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 Which should give you no failures or errors. You can ignore any skipped tests as these are for external tools.
 
+If you have installed python 2 and 3 versions together, its recommended to use virtualenv:
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+1. Install virtualenv `sudo apt install python3-virtualenv`
+2. Create a virtualenv for python3 `virtualenv --python=python3 env_py3`
+3. Activate the virtualenv `source ./env_py3/bin/activate`
+4. Install pytest `pip install pytest`
+5. Now using this virtualenv try to run tests
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