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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

rootdir is not considered as expected Open

topic: collection type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11186 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2023
Pytest 7.4.0 causing skip reason for long test names to disappear in small terminal Open

topic: reporting type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11146 · 9 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2023
Provide a hook or feature to sanitize some displayed content Open

type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11135 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 23, 2023
Adding scope to parametrized fixture changes test ordering, (e.g. confuses PyCharm) Open

topic: fixtures

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11121 · Opened Jun 19, 2023
Pytest reevaluates walrus operations within assert statements Open

topic: rewrite type: regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11115 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2023
ModuleNotFoundError when pytest not in venv Open

topic: collection type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11111 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2023
conftest.py discovery when running pytest --rootdir Open

type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11071 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2023
[perf] Automatically prefer Windows Dev Drive for default tmp_path Open

platform: windows type: performance type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11040 · 7 comments · Opened May 26, 2023
feature request: use --show-capture to show stdout and stderr but not logs Open

plugin: capture type: proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11037 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 25, 2023
Fixture with scope=package have incorrect request object Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10993 · 1 comment · Opened May 12, 2023
Test hangs when using mp.Pool on Windows/macOS using CLI runner when --import-mode=importlib Open

platform: mac platform: windows type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10965 · 12 comments · Opened May 6, 2023
Make tmp_path truncation configurable or longer Open

plugin: tmpdir topic: config

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10949 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2023
Drop symlink creation in tmp_path Open

plugin: tmpdir type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10916 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2023
Pytest fails to find some libraries Open

topic: collection type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10885 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2023
Memory leak when using numpy matrix in tests Open

type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10860 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2023
conftest.py definitions in subdirectories shadow those in parent directories Open

topic: config type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10851 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2023
Pytest assert rewrite fails when rewriting some parts of cassandra cython code Open

topic: rewrite type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10844 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 28, 2023
`capfd` appears to be flaky on Windows (sometimes returning an empty string) Open

platform: windows plugin: capture type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10843 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2023
tmp_path: basetemp with retention Open

plugin: tmpdir status: help wanted type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10829 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2023
Unexpected behavior of skipping entire module when calling unittest.skip("a")("b") Open

plugin: unittest status: help wanted type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10821 · Opened Mar 16, 2023
Dynamically added xfail mark does not work on fixtures preparations phase Open

topic: marks type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10800 · Opened Mar 7, 2023
Pytest seems to search and create files in site-packages directory when not prompted to Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10781 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 1, 2023
tempdir hardening prevents intentionaly world owned tmpdirs for container sharing Open

plugin: tmpdir

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10738 · Opened Feb 15, 2023
Assert error message is omitted with --tb=long if assertion has been made in method called by test method with. Open

topic: rewrite

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10717 · Opened Feb 8, 2023
Show whitespace escape code in string diffs Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10704 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 3, 2023
Invoking subprocess.check_output makes pytest fail under certain circumstances Open

plugin: capture

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10693 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2023
Allow to change permissions of temp directories created with tmp_path Open

plugin: tmpdir

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10679 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 20, 2023
Support running pytest under WASI Open

platform: wasm/wasi type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10670 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2023
Pytester.syspathinsert() has no effect when using runpytest_subprocess() Open

plugin: pytester type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10651 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2023
`MonkeyPatch.setattr`/`delattr` cause descriptor binding even when the `hasattr` check is disabled with `raising=False` Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10646 · Opened Jan 10, 2023
Memory usage increases rapidly as the number of tests grows Open

status: help wanted type: performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10605 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 22, 2022
Deleting temporary directories early causes non-unique paths and other issues Open

plugin: tmpdir type: proposal type: regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10564 · 18 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2022
--stepwise should continue from the test aborted with a BdbQuit Open

plugin: stepwise type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10562 · Opened Dec 5, 2022
request direct parameterisation of fixtures by tests Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10561 · Opened Dec 5, 2022
--log-cli-level unexpectedly manipulates sys.stdout Open

plugin: capture plugin: logging

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10553 · Opened Dec 2, 2022
Thoughts on command-line vs configuration options Open

status: help wanted topic: config type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10551 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2022
short test summary info - empty cause sometimes Open

topic: reporting

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10521 · Opened Nov 21, 2022
Emit a warning when using an unregistered mark via `-m` Open

topic: marks type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10514 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2022
Warn if argument shadows fixture Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10512 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2022
Logging StreamHandler fails when set up in fixture with capsys Open

plugin: capture

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10486 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2022
Warn on impossible-to-match message pattern in filterwarnings - likely user error Open

plugin: warnings type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10478 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 7, 2022
Make `TerminalWriter` public API? Open

type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10436 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2022
Missing type exports for vendored `py` Open

topic: typing type: deprecation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10435 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2022
`OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor` in terminalwritter Open

type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10434 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 25, 2022
`@pytest.mark.*` priority seems wrong Open

topic: marks type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10406 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2022
assertion explanation cutoff takes beginnings of relevant lines for near identical contents Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10372 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2022
[Windows] pytest randomly fail with tkinter app initialization Open

status: help wanted type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10364 · Opened Oct 10, 2022
Not recognizing paths with left square bracket Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10329 · 14 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2022
Faulthandler traceback not shown even though Python runs in dev mode Open

status: help wanted

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10307 · Opened Sep 19, 2022
Standardize ANSI markup on all terminal output sections Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#10269 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2022

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