Mailman 3 July 2021 - pytest-dev

Transfer of pyfakefs to pytest-dev?
by mrbean-bremen Sept. 30, 2022

Sept. 30, 2022

After the successful transfer of pytest-order (thank you for that smooth experience!), I have been thinking about the transfer of another library - pyfakefs - where I am a contributor. I have been discussing this with the package maintainer, John McGehee, who is also in favor for this, and decided to first ask here if that is feasible. pyfakefs (https://github.com/jmcgeheeiv/pyfakefs) is a library that mocks the file system. It has originally been developed by Mike Bland at Google, later transferred to GitHub (after the shutdown of Google Code in 2011), where John McGehee has forked it, added direct support for unittest and doctest, and has maintained it since then (with my help since a few years ago). Later a contributor added support for pytest via the fs fixture, with more support for pytest following eventually. Today the fs fixture is probably the main means to access pyfakefs, judging by the issues and the dependent repositories. So, while pyfakefs is not a pure pytest plugin, and it doesn't follow the naming convention pytest-xx, we thought that it would be a good idea to transfer it to pytest-dev, with the following goals: - ensure continued maintenance - increase compatibility with pytest and pytest-plugins - improve visibility of the package, especially for pytest developers - ideally, benefit from the larger community to get more code reviews and issue reports For reference see also https://github.com/jmcgeheeiv/pyfakefs/issues/590 What do you think? Thanks! -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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pytest-timeout maintaintenance
by Floris Bruynooghe July 18, 2021

July 18, 2021

Hi all, As you might be aware I've been doing extremely little with respect to pytest-timeout maintenance. This is mostly fine as it's a very low maintenance package at this point in its lifecycle, but it does give people who do try to contribute valuable things a very suboptimal experience of me reviewing things about once a month or less. And there hasn't been anyone regularly contributing that I can just give permissions. So this is a call to see if anyone thinks they could do a better job at maintaining pytest-timeout. If so let me know, go guide people through PRs and I'll happily give the right maintainer bits on github and PyPI. It's not that I don't want to touch it anymore or entirely disappear, and I will remain happy to answer the occasional question. Though my time is certainly not spent on it anymore and my response times will probably remain in O(weeks) as they are currently. If no one would like to do this it's also not the worst, but contributors will keep having to put up with the current sub-optimal level of maintainer interaction. Cheers, Floris

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Console folding
by Jeff Wright July 1, 2021

July 1, 2021

Hello, I am doing some investigation into the possibility of implementing a 'folding' capability for Pytest's console output, and wanted to ask here about the feasibility of this idea. My main motivator is the fact that, in the face of multiple test failures, and with the default console behavior in place, the output can span many pages, requiring the tester to scroll back and hunt for the first failed test in the run. It is easy to get lost, and hard to pinpoint precisely where things started to go wrong. So I thought it would be helpful to have a capability that implements some sort of console 'folding', such that all the detailed Pytest console content is still available, just hidden by default - yet still able to be expanded in some way with operator interaction. [I don't know yet if "operator interaction" would be done with keyboard, mouse, or what.] I do know that Pytest already allows changing the level of verbosity, traceback info, etc. I am also aware of the pytest-html plugin, which is pretty much exactly what I am looking for, just in-console. Would appreciate some comments/advice...is this even do-able? I can't be the first person to dream of such a thing! Thanks, Jeff

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