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The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing

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Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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679 open issues indexed

Duplicate log capture when an initially non-propagating logger enables propagation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15064 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2026
fixtures: `--fixtures-per-test` crashes on fixture-using doctest Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

pytest-dev/pytest#15051 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
fixtures: `--fixtures`/`--fixtures-per-test` don't go through `pytest_collection` Open

topic: collection topic: fixtures type: backward compatibility

pytest-dev/pytest#15049 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
`--fixtures` and `--fixtures-per-test` exit with code 0 on collection errors, internal errors and `pytest.exit()` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15047 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
--last-failed can silently skip failing custom items with brackets in their names Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15045 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Acces violation on Windows when importing some scipy modules Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15037 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Make deselection reasons part of pytest_deselected, not a side channel Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15036 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Collection-error abort check lives in `pytest_runtestloop` instead of `pytest_collection` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15028 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
pytest.approx Decimal repr omits or misstates the effective tolerance Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15010 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
pytest.approx loses mismatch details for same-key mappings with unequal strings Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pytest-dev/pytest#15009 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
tmp_path_retention_policy="failed" removes directories for setup and teardown errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14998 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
9.1: interleaving a file arg with a sibling package's file args orphans that package's conftest fixtures (fixture '…' not found) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14997 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
`--log-cli` discards a `sys.stdout` swap made after capture started (`redirect_stdout`, `CliRunner.isolation`) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14995 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Redundant `File ..., line N` block in SyntaxError output Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14994 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
API to get a test's fixture definitions during parametrization Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14991 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Allow disabling aggregation of warnings by filename Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14983 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
unittest.addModuleCleanup has no effect Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14958 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
__tracebackhide__ can retain hidden frames sharing a source location in ExceptionGroup tracebacks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14940 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Mark autouse fixtures in `--setup-show` (and friends) and `--fixtures-per-test` Open

topic: fixtures topic: reporting

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14920 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Shared `PytestWarning` instances in `deprecated.py` accumulate tracebacks under `-W error` Open

pytest-dev/pytest#14912 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026
"ERROR at" test case name headings ambiguous if they use the same test case function name Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14902 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Fixture discovery scans every attribute of every registered plugin, on every Config Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14877 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
use `expand=True` for `pformat(...)` in python 3.15+ Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14859 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Expose FixtureFunctionDefinition as part of the public API Open

good first issue topic: fixtures

pytest-dev/pytest#14853 · 14 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 11, 2026
`pytester`'s `sys.modules` snapshotting causes improper shutdown of `multiprocessing.resource_tracker` Open

pytest-dev/pytest#14841 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 8, 2026
`pytest.mark.skipif` silently ignores extra keyword args Open

topic: marks

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14839 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Assertion rewriting reorders an operand when a later call rebinds its name Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14820 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Assertion rewriting does not short-circuit chained comparisons Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14819 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Internal `AssertionError` on stale `_finalizers` when a `pytest_fixture_setup` hookimpl raises during setup of a parametrized argument Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14800 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Internal `AssertionError` after class scoped fixture warning Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14775 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
`--pyargs` test discovery still fails in frozen application Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14771 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Proposal: fixture-owned notes via request.add_note (refine #1376) Open

topic: fixtures topic: reporting type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14763 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Implement a `rich`-based `TerminalReporter` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14761 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Package-level pytestmark in __init__.py no longer propagates to tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14737 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2026
`--tb` affects `longrepr` construction, so plugins cannot suppress traceback display without losing traceback data Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14720 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
`pytest` does not work with `PYTHON_LAZY_IMPORTS=all` Open

pytest-dev/pytest#14632 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Jun 21, 2026
"Skipped" lines in the short summary don't include the function names being skipped. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14607 · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Support checking exception order in `RaisesGroup` Open

type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14580 · 11 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Support assertions in `RaisesExc` `check` functions in a `RaisesGroup` Open

type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14578 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2026
`--last-failed` does not (always?) see tests which failed in a subtest Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14575 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2026
The old co_filename is used when test files/folders are moved Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14552 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Allow dotted test filenames (`*.test.py`) via one-line change to `compute_module_name` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14514 · 6 comments · Opened May 24, 2026
terminal: add --name-only option to show only names of failed tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14452 · 4 comments · Opened May 9, 2026
Forcing `--capture=sys` without passing the CLI flag seems impossible? Open

platform: linux plugin: capture type: question

pytest-dev/pytest#14444 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 7, 2026
caplog fixture raises KeyError Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14436 · 2 comments · Opened May 2, 2026
NameError: name 'PytestPluginManager' is not defined Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14416 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Incorrect timing info when using subtests and console_output_style='times' Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14412 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2026
get_closest_marker is working unexpectedly Open

topic: marks type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14329 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2026
`pytest.RaisesGroup` calls the check function with simple exceptions instead of the group Open

type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14324 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 25, 2026
calling `logging.basicConfig` before `pytest.main()` causes `OSError: [WinError 6] The handle is invalid` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#14289 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2026

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