pytest-dev / pytest-dev/pytest-xdist

[bug] log_cli unexpectedly causes verbose progress output

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Description

I've been confused for a while about why pytest-xdist has been printing verbose progress percentages during my test runs even when I do not have -v option added anywhere.

Recently I experimented by removing log_cli=true from my pytest.ini file and - voilà - the verbose progress was replaced with the "dots" progress indicators I had been looking for.

I understand that pytest-xdist can't support live logs given its current implementation, but I would still love to have log_cli=true be the default behavior whenever xdist isn't enabled and get the default "dots" progress output whenever xdist is enabled.

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Start by reproducing the behavior with pytest-xdist and a pytest.ini setting of log_cli=true, comparing runs with xdist enabled and disabled. The issue is done when non-xdist runs use live logging by default while xdist runs retain dots progress without requiring -v.

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python
Domain
distributed-systems, testing-qa
Issue type
Bug
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