Temporary files and directories from pytest

[anand-avinash]

Running the pytest creates some temporary files and directories that are not deleted automatically.

The temporary files are pointings.npy and difference.npy (when pytest is called twice) - each ~250MB in size. It seems like they are coming from benchmarks/pointing_generation.py, but I am not sure why pytest is running this script.

The temporary directories are cmb and nonlin_example. They are created when lbs.Simulation() is called in test functions. An appropriate solution would be passing tmp_path to the base_dir argument of simulation class as explained here: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/tmp_path.html.

[ziotom78]

Hi @anand-avinash, I wrote that file when I implemented the new pointings API #358. I am surprised that PyTest runs it; my understanding was that it should only run scripts in folders starting with test*. It would be better to disable it, as it wastes computing resources.