[pytest-dev] How can I suppress cleanups when a test fails

[Eliot, Christopher]

Thank you.  This might be helpful, but I also have other resources that are not files that I would like to selectively clean up or not.  These resources are in a relational DB, not a file system.  And no, I can't just wrap everything in a big transaction and then roll it back, unfortunately.

Topher Eliot

From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de>

Hi Christopher,

if you use the tmpdir/tmp_path fixtures pytest provides,
just don't do additional cleanup, pytest keeps the last 3 basetemps around precisely for that use-case and drops older ones

-- Ronny
Am 15.04.21 um 21:56 schrieb Eliot, Christopher:
My test suit generates some intermediate files and other resources which typically would be deleted upon termination of the test.  However, if there is a failure, I would like to leave them in place to help in diagnosing the failure.

Is there a clean way to do this?

I'm already using a fixture to do cleanup, so I'm prepared to use some aspect of the fixture if that's appropriate.

Thanks,
Topher Eliot
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