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diff --git a/doc/example/basic.txt b/doc/example/basic.txt index b88b28c..f4df233 100644 --- a/doc/example/basic.txt +++ b/doc/example/basic.txt @@ -173,6 +173,22 @@ To force tox to recreate a (particular) virtual environment:: would trigger a complete reinstallation of the existing py27 environment (or create it afresh if it doesn't exist). +passing down environment variables +------------------------------------------- + +.. versionadded:: 2.0 + +By default tox will only pass the ``PATH`` environment variable (and on +windows ``SYSTEMROOT`` and ``PATHEXT``) from the tox invocation to the +test environments. If you want to pass down additional environment +variables you can use the ``passenv`` option:: + + [testenv] + passenv = LANG + +When your test commands execute they will execute with +the same LANG setting as the one with which tox was invoked. + setting environment variables ------------------------------------------- |