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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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Surprising behavior when passing class/function to marker Open

topic: marks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8499 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 30, 2021
`pytest.approx` fails with `TypeError` when testing approximate value of a `decimal.Decimal` Open

topic: approx type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8495 · 26 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2021
Remove parametrize decorators (and perhaps docstrings) from tracebacks Open

topic: parametrize topic: reporting topic: tracebacks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8484 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 23, 2021
`pytest` hangs when `RecursionError` happens for `MagicMock` Open

topic: tracebacks type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8482 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2021
Difference in call sequence for teardown between fixture class decoration and through usefixtrue field of ini file. Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8427 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 10, 2021
`@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)` on methods on base classes run in a different order for `TestCase` and non-`TestCase` Open

plugin: unittest topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8412 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2021
ImportError with cv2 (opencv) Open

status: help wanted

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8397 · 11 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2021
Error not raised in session fixture when mark.xfail is set on last test Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8375 · Opened Feb 26, 2021
Fixtures without scope Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pytest-dev/pytest#8347 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2021
asserrtrepr compare - use text diff for multiline reprs Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8346 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 15, 2021
alias locals in assertreprcompare for errors Open

topic: reporting topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8344 · Opened Feb 13, 2021
pytest could do a better job printing fixture selection info Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8313 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2021
Cannot use python logging without maintaining all records in caplog Open

plugin: logging type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8307 · 13 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2021
Test Parametrization Id Function Receives Arg Tuple Open

topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8283 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jan 26, 2021
Add module (__name__) to pytest_assertion_pass hook Open

plugin: logging topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8263 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2021
Add example of resources + parametrize fixtures Open

topic: fixtures type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8208 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2020
Package scoped fixture will not execute teardown Open

status: help wanted topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8189 · 21 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 23, 2020
Add a public method to retrieve output from "terminalreporter" as a string Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8175 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2020
Add a more obvious way to pass parameters to fixture functions Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8109 · 11 comments · 59 reactions · Opened Dec 8, 2020
Provide better message when pytest receives invalid filter with `-W` Open

plugin: warnings topic: reporting

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8096 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 3, 2020
Add more info on set_log_path() Open

plugin: logging type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8086 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2020
Breakdown of setup duration Open

topic: fixtures topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8079 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 27, 2020
--last-failed --last-failed-no-failures none is now collecting much more tests than it did in 5.4.3 Open

topic: collection type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8078 · 12 comments · Opened Nov 27, 2020
Add typing information for parameterized fixtures Open

topic: typing type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8073 · 6 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Nov 25, 2020
introduce scopes identified by types Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8060 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 22, 2020
Presence of a plugin causes doctests a shared namespace to fail traceback with assertion Open

plugin: doctests status: help wanted topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8059 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2020
--durations=0 reports each test twice Open

status: help wanted topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8042 · 10 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2020
Add a runtime check for exported classes which should not be subclassed Open

type: deprecation type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8031 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2020
pytest_fixture_setup hook doesn't run for session scoped fixture Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8000 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 5, 2020
pytest stuck after assertion fail Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7989 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2020
basetemp should not be collected Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7947 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2020
LogCaptureHandler.reset() does not reset log level - allows mutation between tests. Should it? Open

plugin: logging

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7904 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 16, 2020
Limited permission directories in tmpdirs don't get removed & show warnings Open

plugin: tmpdir type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7821 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2020
Module level fixture log capture and association Open

plugin: logging

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7819 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 29, 2020
pytest fails setting PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST when test name cannot be encoded with current locale Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7786 · Opened Sep 23, 2020
Fixture record_testsuite_property does not work with pytest-xdist Open

plugin: junitxml plugin: xdist topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7767 · 15 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2020
Parametrized fixture being used by other fixtures Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7737 · Opened Sep 10, 2020
Failed assertion explanation when using conditionals Open

topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7727 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2020
raising an exception pytest_runtest_teardown causes all all further tests to fail Open

topic: config type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7724 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2020
RFC: Starred arg/kwarg unpacking in Assert rewrites Open

topic: reporting topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7693 · Opened Aug 27, 2020
Bug: Traceback cleanup fails on Exception/pytest.fail in Item.runtest Open

topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7692 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2020
How to disable plugin based on environment? Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7675 · 15 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2020
`caplog.at_level` affects caplog handler too? Open

plugin: logging type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7656 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 16, 2020
Showing stack traces on KeyboardInterrupt Open

topic: reporting topic: tracebacks type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7640 · 10 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2020
testdir.runpytest_subprocess() fails with UnicodeDecodeError in Windows Open

plugin: pytester type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7623 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2020
iter_markers order is top-to-bottom at module node/scope Open

topic: marks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7597 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2020
`pytest -k` should ignore private attributes (starting with `_`) Open

type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7539 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2020
[junit] Add a file attribute to xunit2 Open

plugin: junitxml type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7537 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2020
[FR] Support for env-dependent `filterwarnings` entries Open

topic: config type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7525 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2020
Typing and public API Open

topic: typing type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7469 · 41 comments · 63 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2020

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