How to migrate from multi-version Python Travis-CI builds to Gitlab CI

With Travis-CI you can setup a CI build to run against multiple Python versions fairly easily.

.travis.yml

sudo: false
language: python
python:
    - 2.7
    - 3.6
env:
  - TOXENV=py-normal
install: pip install tox
script: tox

tox.ini

[tox]
envlist = py{27,36}-normal

[testenv]
commands =
    pytest

deps =
    -rtest_requirements.txt

You can achieve something similar with Gitlab CI through the following .gitlab-ci.yml configuration. Your tox.ini can remain the same.

before_script:
  # Install pyenv
  - apt-get update
  - apt-get install -y make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev
  - git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
  - export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
  - export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
  - eval "$(pyenv init -)"
  # Install tox
  - pip install tox

test:python27:
  script:
  - pyenv install 2.7.14
  - pyenv shell 2.7.14
  - tox -e py27-normal

test:python36:
  script:
  - pyenv install 3.6.4
  - pyenv shell 3.6.4
  - tox -e py36-normal

The only downside with this is the extra time it takes to install pyenv and the interpreter of choice. A small price to pay to free your project from Github ;)

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