[pytest-dev] -k EXPRESSION: How to allow for case-insensitive matching

[Floris Bruynooghe]

Using the full test id as shown by -v is what I always use for this case
instead of using -k

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 23:58 Bruno Oliveira, <nicoddemus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Oscar,
>
> Not right now, the matching is always partial... not sure how we could
> signal to `-k` that we want an exact match of the last part of the node id
> (which seems what you want).
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 7:40 PM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> As an aside, I would often like to use -k and have an exact match so e.g.
>> I do
>>
>>     $ pytest -k test_xxx
>>
>> and I want that to run test_xxx only and not test_xxx_1 etc. Is there
>> a way to do that?
>>
>> --
>> Oscar
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 20:56, Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks everyone for their input!
>> >
>> > Christoph feel free to open a PR targeting the `features` branch with
>> this change.
>> >
>> > For now I don't think we need an option to revert to the old behavior;
>> if people claim for it we can consider adding it in the future though.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Bruno
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:38 PM RonnyPfannschmidt <
>> opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> it seems to me that a change to
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/src/_pytest/mark/legacy.py#L28
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> in addition to ensuring lowercase of the expression is all that's
>> needed
>> >> on the technical side
>> >>
>> >> on the release management side its a breaking change that needs a major
>> >> release
>> >>
>> >> nonetheless i'm all for it.
>> >>
>> >> i wonder about the case sensitivity of mark expressions as well
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -- Ronny
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Am 04.12.19 um 15:55 schrieb Brian Okken:
>> >> > I think switching to case insensitive by default would be fine. Do
>> we need a flag for case sensitive? Not sure.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Brian
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Dec 4, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hey,
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 10:58:09AM -0300, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>> >> >>> I would actually vote to change the existing behavior to be
>> >> >>> case-insensitive. I doubt it would break many suites, if at all,
>> and would
>> >> >>> be more in alignment with the intent of the option, more of it
>> being a
>> >> >>> "partial match" than an exact match, as it matches against any
>> portion of
>> >> >>> the node id currently anyway.
>> >> >> Sounds entirely reasonable to me!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Florian
>> >> >>
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