[py-dev] [hpk42/pytest] pytest blows up when collecting modules with uninspectable objects (issue #214)

[Thomas Waldmann]

--- you can reply above this line ---

New issue 214: pytest blows up when collecting modules with uninspectable objects
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/214/pytest-blows-up-when-collecting-modules

Thomas Waldmann:

werkzeug/flask offers some threadlocals to comfortable access stuff like (http) request, session, (wsgi) app, etc. - those objects are special and only valid when a request is running or an app was created.

if you access them before / after they are valid, it'll raise a RuntimeError.

while collecting tests, pytest (since 2.3) accesses all module-level objects and tries to inspect them for a specific attribute, causing a RuntimeError exception when it does that on such special objects.

thus, the usual code used in about every flask app makes pytest unusable:

from flask import request, session  # <- threadlocals

a simple patch that solves the issue is attached.


--

This is an issue notification from bitbucket.org. You are receiving
this either because you are the owner of the issue, or you are
following the issue.