Check if any tests raise a deprecation warning with pytest

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I am using pytest to run tests in a Python package, and I would like to know if any of the code that is executed as part of the tests is raising deprecation warnings (when all tests are passing). Does anyone know of a way to do this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '13 at 16:35

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The code

import warnings
warnings.simplefilter("error")

will turn (all) warnings into errors, which may help.

Alternatively, you can get a list of generated warnings with

import warnings

with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
    warnings.warn("deprecated", DeprecationWarning)
    print(w)

#>>> [<warnings.WarningMessage object at 0x7fee80484f50>]

and then assert on that list.

answered Sep 20 '13 at 16:35

Veedrac

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Please note that this example is no longer valid as python2.7 since the DeprecationWarnings are filtered out by default – Romuald Brunet Jan 09 '17 at 09:42

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '17 at 11:22

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Starting with pytest 3.1, warnings are automatically displayed at the end of the session: see https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/warnings.html

answered Oct 06 '17 at 11:22

Wolfgang Ulmer

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`py.test -W error::UserWarning` as mentioned there. – Michael Sep 08 '21 at 13:43

Check if any tests raise a deprecation warning with pytest

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