Who is keeping pycharm test execution freezed? pytest, xdist or pycharm?

[andreabisello]

Hi
i'm asking for a suggestion
sometime happen that my test exection with pycharm (everything updated) freeze in this way

all the test are passed or ignored or failed,
108 on 108.
so who is waiting for who?
is pycharm? is xdist? is pytest?
any suggestion?
thanks.

[The-Compiler]

Your first step for this should be running your tests with pytest from the commandline. If it works there, it sounds like it's probably PyCharm.

[andreabisello]

Thanks @The-Compiler .
The problem is that happen rarely and without any reason.
I'm using pycharm+pytest+xdist every day in the last 4 years,
I do a lot of execution. but sometime something hangs.
Ok i will try from the command line skipping pycharm,
but this never happened to you?
thanks and have a good day

[andreabisello]

hi @The-Compiler
i start to think the problem is xdist with pytest-timeout,
that crashes keeping pycharm not updated
you see that?

test_prepdv_cades has only one test inside created by the only parameter having prepdv_zip,
for pycharm the test is finished, but the "container of the test" have not finished.
running from local,
sometime i see errors like that one

a worker crash because of a timeout,
and nothing more happens.

now i'm gonna try to remove the pytest-timeout,
and update you only for sharing knowledge,
then i'm gonna open the bug in the right place.

thanks :)

[The-Compiler]

Looks to me like the PyCharm integration isn't handling that case correctly. I believe I've seen similar things when e.g. the test process segfaults (just no output in PyCharm), but personally I use VS Code so I might be misremembering.

[andreabisello]

thankyou, by the way can you list to me the plugins you use to use correcly pytest in vs code?

[The-Compiler]

I just use the default Python extension from Microsoft.