Why doesn't my current directory show up in the path using pytest on Windows?

I have the following folder structure;

myapp\
  myapp\
     __init__.py
  tests\
     test_myapp.py

and my pwd is

C:\Users\wwerner\programming\myapp\

I have the following test setup:

import sys
import pprint

def test_cool():
    pprint.pprint(sys.path)
    assert False

That produces the following paths:

['C:\\Users\\wwerner\\programming\\myapp\\tests',
 'C:\\Users\\wwerner\\programming\\envs\\myapp\\Scripts',
 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\python34.zip',
 'C:\\Python34\\DLLs',
 'C:\\Python34\\lib',
 'C:\\Python34',
 'C:\\Users\\wwerner\\programming\\envs\\myapp',
 'C:\\Users\\wwerner\\programming\\envs\\myapp\\lib\\site-packages']

And when I try to import myapp I get the following error:

ImportError: No module named 'myapp'

So it looks like it's not adding the current directory to my path.

By changing my import line to look like this:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '.')
import myapp

I am then able to import myapp with no problems.

Why does my current directory not show up in the path when running pytest? Is my only workaround to insert . into the sys.path? (I'm using Python 3.4 if it matters)

Ahah!

After comparing the layout of my cookiecutter repo, it turns out to be way more simple (and better) than that.

tests/
    __init__.py
    test_myapp.py

A simple addition of the __init__.py file to my test dir allows me to run py.test from my main directory.