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"How a Solo Hobbyist Learned to Love Testing"
My #PyOhio 2025 talk is now on YouTube! I show how using #pytest with a test-first process taught me how #Django turns a request into …

Wspaniały dzisiejszy #Python: #Gentoo uruchamia testy w paczkach związanych z #ProtoBuf z pomocą #PyTest-forked, żeby obejść s…

What am I doing instead of resting? Well, I'm playing with generating EPYTEST_DESELECT from `epytest --junit-xml=…`
#Gentoo #PyTest #Python

Nowadays in quality #Python: #Gentoo is running #ProtoBuf-related test suite via #PyTest-forked to workaround protobuf segfaulting during GC.
Of course, it implies random programs can segfault on exit too.
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/22067
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-python/protobuf/protobuf-6.31.1.ebuild?id=54e20d4bb0ec99ab868695a2980c4307d179cb10#n150

@…, do you think we should aim at replacing `flaky` with `pytest-rerunfailures`? I see quite a lot of #Python packages are using `@flaky.flaky` decorator directly, even though they are using #pytest otherwise.

New on blog: "EPYTEST_PLUGINS and other goodies now in #Gentoo"
"""
If you are following the gentoo-dev mailing list, you may have noticed that there’s been a fair number of patches sent for the #Python eclasses recently. Most of them have been centered on #pytest support. Long story short, I’ve came up with what I believed to be a reasonably good design, and decided it’s time to stop manually repeating all the good practices in every ebuild separately.
In this post, I am going to shortly summarize all the recently added options. As always, they are all also documented in the Gentoo Python Guide.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/07/26/epytest_plugins-and-other-goodies-now-in-gentoo/

#Python #packaging be like:
"Remember the totally random #PyTest plugin that died in 2018, that we forced you to add to #Gentoo, because we decided to start using it for no good reason? Well, we just stopped. Also, we just found a #NIH plugin that reinvents flaky test handling for the third time, enjoy!"
(Fortunately, it's compatible enough with pytest-rerunfailures, so we can ignore it.)

In other news, I've sent a few fun patches to improve epytest in #Gentoo.
This includes forcing short summaries, creating junit .xml for machine processing, and most importantly, EPYTEST_PLUGINS to handle specifying the plugins to load. The goal is to eventually move away from plugin autoloading by default.
#PyTest #Python