excluding name patterns from consideration

[pytestbot]

Originally reported by: BitBucket: faassen, GitHub: faassen

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Today I ran into the following. I started using a library called webtest, which exposes a class called TestApp which can be used to test WSGI apps.

The very act of doing this:

from webtest import TestApp

would trigger pytest to consider TestApp as something to find tests on, but would then immediately skip it. The skipping process is visible and at least the display of it is so slow you actually see the number increased: for 9 modules that import TestApp, the number goes up to 9.

I'd like a way to configure pytest to exclude the pattern 'TestApp' from any consideration whatsoever. I think this may be possible using pytest_pycollect_makeitem, but that got quickly rather complicated. Could a configuration option be added for this use case?

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/477

[pytestbot]

Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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Sorry for taking a while to answer: I think about supporting the nose-style "notest" attribute. If pytest finds it on a class or function, it would ignore it. It would mean you would need to set TestApp.notest = True, maybe in your conftest.py file. That's a slight hack but OTOH designing a config option, documenting that, and making it work without introducing too much overhead ... not sure it's worth it. And there would still be the issue of nose-compat.

[The-Compiler]

Can this be closed as there is a way to do what you need, @faassen?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

closing due to known solution and lack of feedback

[adamchainz]

I was just trying to fix the warning from Pytest that is still emitted with webtest's TestApp. I found this issue, but the response is sligthly wrong, it's not notest, but __test__ = False that is needed, as per Pytest's nose docs.