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closes #13634
Summary
This PR fixes an issue where attempting to disable a
conftest.pyfile using the-p no:option resulted in an internal assertion failure.conftest.pyfiles are not plugins and cannot be enabled or disabled using-p, but pytest previously accepted such arguments and crashed later during plugin loading with:Pytest now rejects attempts to block a conftest early during argument processing and raises a clear
UsageErrorexplaining that conftest files cannot be disabled via-p.What’s Changed
Added explicit detection for
-p no:<name>where<name>refers to a conftest file (e.g. conftest.py, or a path to a conftest).Introduced an early
UsageErrorwith an actionable message.Updated config test