Re: [PROPOSAL] Migrate to pytest from nosetests for dtests

+1nb, Never been that fond of nose from a usability perspective, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of the problems running dtests were related to issues in nose. I can't imagine it would be a lot of work to port to py.test, if someone wants to do it they can go right ahead. On 29

Re: [PROPOSAL] Migrate to pytest from nosetests for dtests

s/handling/hanging > On Nov 29, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Michael Kjellman > wrote: > > i keep seeing nose randomly handing after a test successfully completes > execution. i’m very far from a python guru but i spent a few hours with gdb > trying to debug the thing and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Migrate to pytest from nosetests for dtests

i keep seeing nose randomly handing after a test successfully completes execution. i’m very far from a python guru but i spent a few hours with gdb trying to debug the thing and get python stacks and got symbolicated native stacks but it’s random but root causing while nose is sitting on a lock

Re: [PROPOSAL] Migrate to pytest from nosetests for dtests

I don't have any objection to this, really. I know I rely on a handful of nose plugins, and possibly others do, but those should be easy enough to re-write. I am curious though, what's the impetus for this? Is there some pytest feature we want that nose lacks? Is there some nosetest bug or