diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 643fbdbb..11161502 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -70,9 +70,14 @@ We use `nox `__ to instrument our tests.
- To test your changes, run unit tests with ``nox``::
$ nox -s unit-2.7
- $ nox -s unit-3.7
+ $ nox -s unit-3.8
$ ...
+- Args to pytest can be passed through the nox command separated by a `--`. For
+ example, to run a single test::
+
+ $ nox -s unit-3.8 -- -k
+
.. note::
The unit tests and system tests are described in the
@@ -93,8 +98,12 @@ On Debian/Ubuntu::
************
Coding Style
************
+- We use the automatic code formatter ``black``. You can run it using
+ the nox session ``blacken``. This will eliminate many lint errors. Run via::
+
+ $ nox -s blacken
-- PEP8 compliance, with exceptions defined in the linter configuration.
+- PEP8 compliance is required, with exceptions defined in the linter configuration.
If you have ``nox`` installed, you can test that you have not introduced
any non-compliant code via::
@@ -133,13 +142,18 @@ Running System Tests
- To run system tests, you can execute::
- $ nox -s system-3.7
+ # Run all system tests
+ $ nox -s system-3.8
$ nox -s system-2.7
+ # Run a single system test
+ $ nox -s system-3.8 -- -k
+
+
.. note::
System tests are only configured to run under Python 2.7 and
- Python 3.7. For expediency, we do not run them in older versions
+ Python 3.8. For expediency, we do not run them in older versions
of Python 3.
This alone will not run the tests. You'll need to change some local
diff --git a/synth.metadata b/synth.metadata
index fec849e7..cf254e75 100644
--- a/synth.metadata
+++ b/synth.metadata
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
"git": {
"name": ".",
"remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core.git",
- "sha": "94c76e0873e5b2f42331d5b1ad286c1e63b61395"
+ "sha": "7273090a011c8b840d2e90e29dda3fc8f0eed792"
}
},
{
"git": {
"name": "synthtool",
"remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool.git",
- "sha": "33366574ffb9e11737b3547eb6f020ecae0536e8"
+ "sha": "4679e7e415221f03ff2a71e3ffad75b9ec41d87e"
}
}
],