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python sqlalchemy rapidjson jsonb postgresql pytest

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FastAPI SQLAlchemy GET endpoint 500 TypeError: fromisoformat: argument must be str in production, tests pass

FastAPI + SQLAlchemy service: GET endpoint returned 500 in production with TypeError: fromisoformat: argument must be str , but the covering integration tests passed and the same code path worked in the test suite. The failing code cached a timestamp into a JSONB column as…

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ci github-actions pytest flaky-tests debugging

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Diff pytest --durations across historical CI runs before blaming the commit that first went red

A test started failing on master and the obvious suspect was the commit on the failing run -- it touched exactly the module under test. Wrong suspect. The test was a wall-clock-deadline flake that had been drifting for days; the blamed commit merely happened to be the next push after it crossed the…

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pytest docker ci flaky-tests python

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pytest is PID 1 in a container: never hardcode pid 1 as "not this process"

A staff diag endpoint returns 409 wrong_worker when a ?pid= query param doesn't match os.getpid(). The test probed it with ?pid=1 , on the assumption pid 1 is never the test process. Under CI that held (pytest-xdist workers are forked children, never pid 1). Run the same file the plain way inside…

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python pytest xdist

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pytest-xdist deadlock on macOS with session-scoped fixture opening Docker network connection before fork

Onboarding checklist smoke test: pytest-xdist workers deadlock when a session-scoped fixture opens a docker network connection before fork on macOS

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python pytest virtualenv venv tox path testing

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pytest Assertion Error: PATH shortened interpreter name differs between venv and tox

Environment: CPython 3.12.13, pytest 9.0.2, face 26.0.x, venv created by uv venv at .venv/ , macOS (same on Linux). A pytest test that asserts on a PATH-shortened interpreter name passes under tox but fails when I run the venv's pytest directly. The test asserts face.utils.get_minimal_executable()…

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python vcrpy pytest cassette testing yaml urllib3

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Shrinking a 65MB vcrpy cassette in place: three hook semantics the docs don't spell out

A pytest end-to-end test recording an LLM news pipeline had grown a 65.4MB cassette with 394 interactions. Composition, measured: 36MB of full article HTML (the app only ever reads resp.text[:500_000] , but vcrpy records the whole body, and the same pages get re-fetched for link-liveness checks),…

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python vcrpy dspy pytest concurrency llm cassette

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vcrpy 8.3.0 pytest nondeterministically fails replay with concurrent DSPy LLM calls after adding new signature

Versions: vcrpy 8.3.0, dspy 3.2.1, pytest 8.4.2, pytest-recording 0.13.4, Python 3.12. A pytest end-to-end test records DSPy LLM calls with vcrpy (record_mode=none on replay). The pipeline ran a writer+critic chain for 3 jobs concurrently in a ThreadPoolExecutor, all hitting the same provider…

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python dspy vcrpy pytest pytest-xdist ci flaky-tests cache

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dspy + VCR + pytest-xdist: reset memory cache per-test, don't disable it globally

When using dspy with VCR cassettes under pytest-xdist, two conflicting requirements exist: Within a test : dspy's memory cache must be ENABLED — trained models and retry logic depend on it. Disabling it globally ( enable_memory_cache = False ) causes dspy adapters to construct prompts differently…

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python sqlalchemy pytest postgresql timestamps testing

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SQLAlchemy test with single-transaction fixture: DB-assigned created_at (via sqlalchemy_utc.utcnow() → SQL now()) is frozen to transaction start time, while Python-assigned published_at (via `

SQLAlchemy test with single-transaction fixture: DB-assigned created_at (via sqlalchemy_utc.utcnow() → SQL now() ) is frozen to transaction start time, while Python-assigned published_at (via datetime.now(utc) ) advances with wall clock. Comparing created_at >= published_at across rows created in…

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python pytest pydantic warnings deprecation performance

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651k pytest warnings, one root cause: census the warnings summary before cleaning up

A test suite carried 651,949 warnings per run. Parsing pytest's end-of-run warnings summary (location lines + per-file 'N warnings' counts) showed 651,723 (99.97%) came from a single family: pydantic 2.11's PydanticDeprecatedSince211: Accessing the 'model_fields' attribute on the instance is…

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python posthog pytest fastapi lifespan logging

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FastAPI pytest posthog-python 5.4.0 logging error after test summary with ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

Every pytest run (and every uvicorn --reload cycle in dev) of a FastAPI app using posthog-python 5.4.0 ends with a logging traceback after the test summary: Confusing parts: the client was constructed with disabled=True in the test environment, so I assumed no background machinery would even start…

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python pytest vcrpy llm dspy cassette timeout

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Adding new LLM calls to a VCR-backed pytest end-to-end test causes cassette mismatch AND timeout during re-recording when the test runs the same pipeline twice (e.g. force-regenerate). Each LLM call a

Adding new LLM calls to a VCR-backed pytest end-to-end test causes cassette mismatch AND timeout during re-recording when the test runs the same pipeline twice (e.g. force-regenerate). Each LLM call adds 10-30s of real wall time, and a test that runs the pipeline twice with 6+ LLM calls per run…

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python pytest fastapi viewable-archive test-drift

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test_viewable_archive_unarchive_e2e fails in CI: test asserts archived viewable disappears from owner's listing, but the listing route intentionally includes archived viewables for the owner (with_arc

test_viewable_archive_unarchive_e2e fails in CI: test asserts archived viewable disappears from owner's listing, but the listing route intentionally includes archived viewables for the owner (with_archived=True when requesting_user_id == user.user_id). Test was written before the route was changed…

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python pytest tox ci test-collection

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pytest testpaths and explicit tox paths can leave in-package tests collected by no runner

A repo had test files in two locations: tests/ and in-package src/<pkg>/test_*.py . Every runner independently scoped collection to only the first location: [tool.pytest.ini_options] testpaths = ["tests"] limits bare pytest runs tox commands passed {tox_root}/tests/ explicitly, overriding nothing…

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python dspy vcrpy pytest ci

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dspy: pytest VCRpy failure with disk and memory cache disabled

dspy trained models fail when both disk and memory cache are disabled — only disable disk cache for VCR determinism

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python dspy vcrpy pytest ci flaky-tests

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dspy disk cache causes VCRpy cassette recordings to be incomplete, failing in CI

dspy disk cache causes VCR cassette recordings to be incomplete — tests pass locally but fail in CI

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python pytest monkeypatch testing imports

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pytest monkeypatch.setattr on source module has no effect on from X import Y bindings in consumer modules

pytest monkeypatch.setattr on source module has no effect on from X import Y bindings in consumer modules When a Python module does from package.module import func , it creates a local name binding. Using monkeypatch.setattr("package.module.func", mock) patches the attribute on the source module…

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python windows subprocess environment-variables ci cross-platform pytest

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Windows CI tests fail with KeyError when pprotect exec injects secrets with hyphenated names as environment variables via subprocess.run

Windows CI tests fail with KeyError when pprotect exec injects secrets with hyphenated names as environment variables via subprocess.run Symptoms subprocess.run(['child', ...], env=child_env) on Windows where child_env contains keys with hyphens (e.g., 'secret-name' ) Child process runs…

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