Description
From several years ago until recently (works in 8.0.2, doesn't work in 8.1.1), it was possible to get teardown exception information in pytest_fixture_post_finalizer by calling sys.exc_info(). This appears to have changed with the following commit: 434282e#diff-49027cfd80e14edac9b0fae71f7228a408a09599f66a7815839ce8c3ae2ab84fL1020-R1043, which moved the hook call from inside the finally block to before the exception is (re)raised.
Perhaps there's another way to get at this information, but I wasn't able to find it by reading documentation, searching the web, or trying to read the source code. I was able to make things work again by somewhat rearranging the new code.
This was first encountered in CI images that I believe were based off of Ubuntu 22.04, but I was able to reproduce on macOS Monterey.
Here is the code for my attempt at a minimal example:
conftest.py
import sys
import pytest
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _fail_eventually():
yield
raise RuntimeError
def pytest_fixture_post_finalizer():
exc_info = sys.exc_info()
if exc_info != (None, None, None):
print("Saw exception!")
else:
print("Didn't see exception")test_repro.py
def test_pass():
passAgainst 8.0.2, this prints Saw exception!, and pip list has the following output:
Package Version
---------- -------
iniconfig 2.0.0
packaging 24.0
pip 24.0
pluggy 1.5.0
pytest 8.0.2
setuptools 65.5.0
Against 8.1.1, this prints Didn't see exception, and pip list has the following output:
Package Version
---------- -------
iniconfig 2.0.0
packaging 24.0
pip 24.0
pluggy 1.5.0
pytest 8.1.1
setuptools 65.5.0
Against 8.2.0, this still prints Didn't see exception, and pip list has the following output:
Package Version
---------- -------
iniconfig 2.0.0
packaging 24.0
pip 24.0
pluggy 1.5.0
pytest 8.2.0
setuptools 65.5.0
Against a branch I created in a fork of pytest to check that I'm right about this issue (main...mchase-nasuni:pytest:mchase-nasuni-internal-testing), this prints Saw exception!, and pip list has the following output:
Package Version
---------- ---------------------
iniconfig 2.0.0
packaging 24.0
pip 24.0
pluggy 1.5.0
pytest 0.1.dev15909+g0692015
setuptools 65.5.0