In light of the examples, IMHO, I agree that fixtures being explicit about
using yield as context-managers is preferable.

I like @pytest.contextfixture, it is easy to look-up and understand since
it mimics what we already have in contextlib.




On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:07 PM, holger krekel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 16:50 +0200, Harro van der Klauw wrote:
> > As long as it throws an error hinting that you might need yielding=True
> it
> > should be obvious on how to fix
> > the backwards incompatibility issue as soon as you run your tests.
>
> We cannot easily throw an error with a hint.  Consider this example:
>
>     import pytest
>
>     @pytest.fixture
>     def fix():
>         yield 1
>         yield 2
>
>     def test_fix(fix):
>         for x in fix:
>             assert x < 3
>
> This runs fine on pytest-2.3.5.  On trunk it gives this error:
>
>     ...
>
>     fix = 1
>
>         def test_fix(fix):
>     >       for x in fix:
>                 assert x < 3
>     E           TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable
>
> I've never written or seen somebody writing such a generator fixture,
> though.
> And what you would need to do is rewrite the fixture:
>
>     @pytest.fixture
>     def fix():
>         def gen():
>             yield 1
>             yield 2
>         return gen()
>
> Then again, when i first saw the contextlib.contextmanager decorator
> i found it not very intuitive.  Did anyone?  It looks like a hack.
> From that angle i'd rather go for requiring "contextyield=True" or
> @pytest.contextfixture because that can be looked up in documentation
> and thus is easier to read for people not familiar with yields/contextlib.
>
> best,
> holger
>
> > I don't see a big problem with this, updating of a requirement is
> something
> > that you should never do automatically.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Harro
> >
> >
> >
> > On 24 May 2013 16:36, Andreas Pelme <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thursday 9 May 2013 at 15:56, holger krekel wrote:
> > > > This is probably used by very few people but to be on the safe side,
> > > > we probably should introduce a flag like this:
> > > >
> > > > @pytest.fixture(ctx=True) # signal this is a context manager style
> > > fixture
> > > > def fix():
> > > > yield 1
> > > >
> > > > What do you think? Any other suggestions for the flag name?
> > > >
> > > > I'd rather not introduce something like @pytest.contextfixture
> > > > because it would be a duplication of the API (scope, params).
> > > > But i am open to be convinced otherwise.
> > >
> > > I agree that another API like contextfixture should be avoided.
> > >
> > > We had a short discussion on IRC about this, Holger had the idea of
> doing
> > > the opposite if ctx=True - a new default argument "yielding=False"
> which
> > > would make it possible to restore the old behavior by putting
> yielding=True
> > > on fixtures that would be affected by this.
> > >
> > > A fixture that is a generator that currently looks like this
> > >
> > > @pytest.fixture
> > > def fix():
> > >     yield 1
> > >     yield 2
> > >
> > > Would then have to be changed to
> > >
> > > @pytest.fixture(yielding=True)
> > > def fix():
> > >     yield 1
> > >     yield 2
> > >
> > > This is backward incompatible, but given that it seems questionable if
> > > "generator fixtures" useful/is used, with a note in the release notes
> and
> > > documentation I think this could be a good compromise.
> > >
> > > I will be happy to give this a try if it is decided this could be a
> good
> > > approach!
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Andreas
> > >
> > >
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