Testing circular imports using pytest

[kloczek]

I'm looking for some way of testing module code against circular imports.
Someone can recommend how to do that using pytest?🤔

[nicoddemus]

Probably pytest is not a good fit for this, because it imports modules to analyse them, which will break if there are circular imports.

It is probably best done by a tool which analyses the files without importing.

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Pylint can do that with --enable=cyclic-import and there's a pylint-pytest plugin if you really want to have it included in pytest.

[nicoddemus]

Thanks, I was sure something like that existed, but was out of time to search for it. 👍