pytest fails at first test with Exit: FATAL

[ssbarnea]

I encounter a really strange issue on Jira python library, it seems that pytest exist during the execution of the first encountered test and doesn't give any explanation. I checked and there is nothing special about this test, disabling it it will move the error to the next one.

Debug log and pip freeze: https://gist.github.com/ssbarnea/a6799f7b648a675800970515219d4c82
The tests are at https://github.com/pycontribs/jira/blob/develop/tests/tests.py

It seems that this problem happens with both 2.9.2 and 3.0.3 on both Mac OS and Linux, with both python 2 and 3.

I am not sure if that's a real bug in pytest but clearly the behaviour is confusing.

[The-Compiler]

Can you show the full, exact output you get? That smells like something like a segmentation fault, in which case there's nothing pytest can do.

[ssbarnea]

$ pytest tests
=============================================================================================== test session starts ===============================================================================================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.5, pytest-3.0.3, py-1.4.31, pluggy-0.4.0 -- /usr/bin/python
cachedir: .cache
rootdir: /media/psf/Home/redhat/jira, inifile: pytest.ini
collected 122 items

tests/tests.py::UniversalResourceTests::test_pickling_resource

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exit: FATAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
========================================================================================== no tests ran in 8.34 seconds ===========================================================================================

[The-Compiler]

The debug log says:

    pytest_keyboard_interrupt [hook]
        excinfo: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_pytest/runner.py:516: Exit: FATAL

Which comes from your JiraTestManager which is hiding exceptions that way...

class JiraTestManager(object):
    # ...

    def __init__(self):
        # ...

          try:
              # 165 lines of stuff...
          except Exception:
              logging.exception("Basic test setup failed")
              self.initialized = 1
              py.test.exit("FATAL")

[ssbarnea]

Thanks! Now I feel really stupid, I was sure that searched for the FATAL string in my code. Anyway that exception lines needs rework.

BTW, do you know a way to display something on the screen (like details about this "special" error) even if I do have the stderr/stdout capture enabled?

[The-Compiler]

Why not simply let the exception propagate and let pytest handle the rest?