Put options from pytest.ini in conftest.py instead

[sylvorg]

Hello!

I'd like to modify the what test names and files are collected, and whether their AssertionErrors are diffed or not. Is there any way to put these in the conftest.py file instead of the pytest.ini file?

Thank you kindly for the help!

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

No, conftests has a different role and is not suitable for the config

[sylvorg]

Ah; so is there no way to modify what tests are collected through the conftest, not just what files?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Conftests have documented way's to affect collection in their belonging folders that structurally differs from the global configuration, without a actual concrete use case it's hard to give a reasonable recommendation

[sylvorg]

Would you be able to help me with this question I posted on StackOverflow?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

ok, so theres multiple issues with that one that are way over my time buget

1. it seems to be using hpy and i am completely unaware of its behaviours
2. its using non-python module names - (test-) and its not clear to me how that will help

my first recommendation would be to use a pytest config file that adds extra globs for the non-python tests
my second recommendation is to coordinate with the hpy community to figure how to add the interactions

[sylvorg]

Got it. I was asking one of the maintainers of hpy and they advised to simply rename the files, which I had named to follow the hpy variable naming convention, and to add globs for their so-called mangled names, which allow for extra characters in variable names.

Thanks for all the help!