[pytest-dev] Fwd: Re: Proposal: python namespacign for markings/marker objects

[Florian Bruhin]

* Ronny Pfannschmidt <opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> [2016-10-20 09:07:47 +0200]:
> > Finally, and I only just remembered, Holger has some lingering code
> > somewhere which does something like:
> >
> > @pytest.marker
> > def blocker(n):
> >     return {'issue no': int(n)}  # or whatever object you want your marker to be
> >
> > @pytest.mark.blocker(123)
> > def test_fun():
> >     pass
> fixtures and markers are not symmetric and i don't see a reason to make
> them be
> just for looking similar, currently they are *completely* different ,
> and i think that bringing them closer to look more nice will make things
> MUCH worse.
> they are belonging to different categories of "things" with completely
> different desired behaviours.

Then don't think of them like fixtures - but markers are essentially
*functions*. They have arguments and keyword arguments, and currently
everything defining a marker with arguments has to do the
parsing/validating by itself. Holger's proposal seemed to clean this
up and make things a lot easier.

Florian

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