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Pytest session-scoped fixture is re-initialized unexpectedly

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## Description There appears to be an issue with pytest's test execution order that causes a session-scoped, parametrized fixture to be set up and torn down multiple times with the...

sgonorov

Public way to test if a matchexpr will match a marker string or Item

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I have a handful of tools in and outside of a pytest run that care about whether the `matchexpr` (i.e. what gets passed to `pytest -m ...`) will match a...

Redoubts

class-scoped fixtures VS test subclasses

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Hi, I'm trying to build a base class to hold a common test setup and assumptions, that I want to enable in subclasses (inspired by [this article](https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/05/30/python-unittest-common-tests/#with-pytest-using-the-test-attribute)) having the fixture-powered...

MRigal

#### What's the problem this feature will solve? The `-r` flag controls both summary report and output capture reporting. Really, it'd be nice to have those separate. For large tests...

okken

#### What's the problem this feature will solve? Currently it's only possible to set the name of the root suite when running tests, but other frameworks such as jest will...

sebovzeoueb

`PytestCollectionWarning` (and any other warnings) should be treated as an error in strict mode

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#### What's the problem this feature will solve? when i enable the new strict mode in pytest settings, i expect any warnings to become errors. but there seems to still...

DetachHead

#### What's the problem this feature will solve? I noticed that some of the release automation activities involve running bare GH CLI commands with arguments that have to match pre-release...

webknjaz

pytest 9 is not consistently loading conftest.py , which then fails because I'm adding custom options

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Hey there - ~~very difficult to reproduce this consistently, as the behavior changes arbitrarily.~~ see my comment below for reproducer The bad behavior looks like this: ``` [classic@framework sqlalchemy:try_pytest_9]$ .nox/tests-py313-sqlite-cext-backendonly/bin/python...

zzzeek

Use predictable VMs for jobs in the CI

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In general is better not to use `-latest` runners because they are very often outdated versions, causing problems. As github does not update the name of the runners very often,...

ssbarnea

Fixture executed even if all tests are skipped

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I just now updated an old application from pytest 7 to 8 and the following started failing: ```python # Using pytest 8.4.2 from unittest import TestCase, skipIf import pytest @skipIf(True,...

lazka