New issue 467: Cache fixtures which raise pytest.skip.Exception and pytest.fail.Exception https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/467/cache-fixtures-which-raise
Floris Bruynooghe: Something I do quite a lot in fixtures is calling `pytest.skip(...)` or `pytest.fail(...)` in session-scoped fixtures, usually for a service like a database server which is not available. However even though the fixture is scoped on the session py.test will not cache the exception raised from the fixture so the fixture will be executed again and again trying to connect to the same server over and over. Currently I solve this by caching the skip result manually on the fixture so that the fixture code can skip early, but I think it would be nice if py.test cached the exceptions raised from the fixture. While caching a generic exception might not be suitable I'm proposing to at least consider this for pytest.skip.Exception and pytest.fail.Exception. _______________________________________________ pytest-commit mailing list pytest-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-commit
