Running ./bootstap.py --test should open an empty history.py

[bcolsen]

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Problem Description

I found that ./bootstap.py --test would also open a default Spyder instance for debugging.

But it opens your local history and opens new file with my template

It would be easier to debug issues with out resetting my Syder config all the time.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Start Spyder Master
2. See your 10+mb(I guess I like my code cells) history.py in the history
3. Start a new file and see your template

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Like temporary a spyder reset

Versions

From anaconda in a new environ.
Spyder started from the command line with ./bootstrap.py --test

• Spyder version: current master
• Python version: 3.6.5 64bits
• Qt version: 5.9.4
• PyQt version: 5.9.2
• Operating System name/version: Ubuntu 16.04

Dependencies

pyflakes >=0.6.0 :  1.6.0 (OK)
pycodestyle >=2.3:  2.4.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0   :  2.2.0 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1  :  None (NOK)
numpy >=1.7      :  None (NOK)
sphinx >=0.6.6   :  1.7.4 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4     :  0.10.7 (OK)
jedi >=0.11.0    :  0.12.0 (OK)
psutil >=0.3     :  5.4.5 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0  :  5.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3    :  None (NOK)
cython >=0.21    :  None (NOK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0:  4.3.1 (OK)
IPython >=4.0    :  6.4.0 (OK)
pylint >=0.25    :  1.8.4 (OK)

[CAM-Gerlach]

Thanks @bcolsen . Basically, unlike setting SPYDER_PYTEST, which is set by the test suite to force Spyder to run with a clean configuration directory, passing the --test flag to bootstrap.py just sets the SPYDER_TEST env variable which instead tells spyder to not load and save your individual settings file, spyder.ini (or its Linux equivalent), while not affecting handling of anything else inside for spyder-py3 directory, including the history logs for the normal and internal consoles, along with your pylint, profiler, working dir, help, and online help histories, your language and rope settings, any third party plugins you may have installed, and your default temp.py and template.py (new file template) files. Obviously, this is not particularly desirable for most testing scenarios—one would want "clean" to be truly "clean", without such cruft.

While we could just have the history log check for TEST when loading/saving history and handle it accordingly, as we currently do with spyder.ini the better solution I would think would be to just have --test set the Spyder config dir to a clean temp one, just like SPYDER_PYTEST currently does. I've implemented and tested it locally, and everything seems to work fine—I'll push a PR momentarily.