Locust: Test file can not be named locust.py (or any other name that is the same as an existing python package)

[user1020]

Thanks for writing the locust test tool. It's very interesting!

I follow the instruction on http://locust.io/, first I installed

pip install locustio
pip install pyzmq

Then I copied and pasted the sample "Simple example" to locust.py in my local directory and run it against a server listening on another PC (10.3.0.3) as the following but got error:

 locust -f locust.py -H http://10.3.0.3
[2014-04-04 12:03:28,901] john-HP/ERROR/locust.main: No Locust class found!

Not sure what have gone wrong.

Thanks.

[heyman]

Hi!

I believe you got this error because your locust test file is named locust.py. I just tested this and got the same error.

I'm marking this issue as a bug, and changing the name of it. In the meanwhile you can get it working by just renaming your test file (for example to locustfile.py).

Thanks for the report!

[user1020]

Thanks Jonatan, it works now. Glad I stumbled upon a bug.

[heyman]

Great! I'll re-open this issue and use it to track the bug :).

[user1020]

Sure. Sorry, I shouldn't try to close it.

[tmkasun]

I got the same error when having file name as locust.py.

[djonsson]

+1 :)

[bgenchel]

I have the error no matter what my file is named. ?

[junaidimadsah]

where is full path of this in windows

[nmelnic]

Hi,
got the same error, tried to rename the locust but the error still apears. Note: I'm running it from ubuntu VM. Do you have any advices?

[tarsisazevedo]

The problema here is that the error is not clear. I think you can improve error message if locust file is named locust.py.