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Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Test & Code Podcast Patreon Supporters Special guest: Shari Eskenas Catch the video edition live stream on YouTube Watch on YouTube Be part of the episode by subscribing and “smashing that bell” over at pythonbytes.fm/youtube Brian #1: pytest 6.2 is out pytester fixture for plugin testing. Like testdir, but a better name, and uses pathlib.Path objects. verbose mode now shows the reason a test was skipped in the terminal line after the SKIPPED, XFAIL, or XPASS Can use monkeypatch as a context manager with .context() and it’s available both in test and fixture functions, but also in helper functions by using pytest.Monkeypatch.context(). import os from contextlib import contextmanager import pytest def test_foo_1(monkeypatch): with monkeypatch.context() as mp: mp.setenv("foo", "bar") assert os.getenv("foo") == "bar" @contextmanager def some_func(): w