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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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679 open issues indexed

mypy plugin for `@mark.parametrize` Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9334 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 23, 2021
`'store_true'` does not work correctly in parser.addoption Open

topic: config type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pytest-dev/pytest#9303 · 15 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2021
Test collection fails with repeated test module name (but unique paths) Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9301 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 12, 2021
Presence of empty `__init__.py` breaks test discovery in hard-to-diagnose ways Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9300 · Opened Nov 12, 2021
Shorten plugin source paths for --fixtures Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9292 · Opened Nov 10, 2021
Fixture teardown is called during setup of the next test Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9287 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 8, 2021
Allow interpolating values into getini help Open

topic: config type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9244 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 27, 2021
Allow control over log channels captured/displayed by CLI Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9239 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2021
`LogCaptureHandler` can be garbage collected when `caplog` fixture is in use Open

plugin: capture plugin: logging status: help wanted type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9236 · 14 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2021
Keyword-based parameter sets Open

topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9216 · 14 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Oct 19, 2021
Limit memory usage for captured logs or stdout Open

plugin: capture type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9215 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 19, 2021
Race condition when doing non toplevel pytest plugin check Open

topic: config type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

pytest-dev/pytest#9203 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2021
KeyboardInterrupt full-trace should have option to ignore pytest frames Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9201 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 13, 2021
Collecting tests from package `app` gets broken after adding pytest plugin `app.tests.foo` Open

topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9200 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2021
Override class-level fixture parametrization with method-level parametrization Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9175 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2021
`scope=module` parametrized fixtures invoked multiple times, depending on fixture names Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9172 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 7, 2021
Create a pytest plugin that is the official methodology for managing resource lifecycles Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9142 · 17 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2021
show notes about discarded mark/keyword expressions Open

topic: marks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9121 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2021
automatic tox env cachedir has no ux indication and triggers always Open

plugin: cache type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9116 · Opened Sep 22, 2021
Permission Denied Error for root owned folder Open

topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9089 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2021
Improve ParameterSet with nested ParameterSet objects Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9074 · 23 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2021
Strange warning potentially related with the way pytest imports modules in conftest.py. Open

plugin: warnings topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9072 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2021
add `run` parameter to `pytest.xfail()` Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9027 · 10 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2021
Log entries not reported Open

plugin: logging type: question

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9021 · Opened Aug 19, 2021
Disable pytest logging plugin for single test Open

plugin: capture plugin: logging

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9018 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 18, 2021
Test collector bug when --rootdir is not real path Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9008 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 16, 2021
Using stdlib `runpy.run_module()` causes `AttributeError: 'AssertionRewritingHook' object has no attribute 'get_code'` Open

topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9007 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 15, 2021
`assert str1 == str2` takes forever with long strings that differ by a short prefix Open

topic: rewrite type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8998 · 34 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2021
warn when the cmdline_main hook raises systemexit Open

type: bug type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8986 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2021
mypy plugin to ignore type-checking errors with pytest.raises Open

status: help wanted

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8984 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2021
Exclude variable from showlocals output Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8974 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2021
Terminal reporter doesn't print Open

topic: reporting type: bug type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8973 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2021
error in setup.cfg ("unexpected value continuation") if `pytest.ini` is missing Open

topic: config type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8923 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2021
Skipping in a teardown part of a yield fixture is not counted properly Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8865 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2021
Mechanism to log current test to file logger Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8859 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 6, 2021
Summary report should report failed tests using {file}:{line} format instead of {file}::{test_name} Open

topic: reporting topic: selection type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8850 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2021
Pytest will not issue PytestAssertRewriteWarning when __pycache__ is used Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8835 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2021
Add regendoc to CI? Open

type: docs type: infrastructure

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8808 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2021
Improve diffing algorithm for trivial cases Open

topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8779 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2021
support running examples from source folder without copying them Open

plugin: pytester type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8773 · Opened Jun 16, 2021
type hinting for request.param (such as SubRequest[MyType]) Open

topic: fixtures topic: typing type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8763 · 5 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2021
Incorrect mixture of exit code and jUnit report when pytest.exit is called and a fixture teardown fails Open

plugin: junitxml topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8750 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2021
unittest.mock's patch.multiple being interpreted as fixtures Open

plugin: unittest topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8748 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2021
Setup times of long-running fixtures are attributed to first test Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8741 · 16 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 7, 2021
Integrate pytest-instafail functionality into the core Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8720 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2021
Unexpected behavior of class and package scoped fixtures Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8712 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2021
Bug with tolerances and other undesired behavior with approx using dict Open

topic: approx

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8703 · 3 comments · Opened May 26, 2021
`pytest --debug` badly interacts with `flask.current_app` on pytest 6.2.4 Open

topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8676 · 4 comments · Opened May 14, 2021
Review ignored warnings in selftests Open

type: selftests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8556 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2021
`pytest -Werror` fails with ignore warnings in pytest.ini Open

plugin: warnings

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8534 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2021

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