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Consider MRO when obtaining marks for classes #7792
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status: help wanteddevelopers would like help from experts on this topicdevelopers would like help from experts on this topictopic: marksrelated to marks, either the general marks or builtinrelated to marks, either the general marks or builtintype: enhancementnew feature or API change, should be merged into features branchnew feature or API change, should be merged into features branch
When using pytest markers in two baseclasses
FooandBar, inheriting from both of those baseclasses will lose the markers of one of those classes. This behavior is present in pytest 3-6, and I think it may as well have been intended. I am still filing it as a bug because I am not sure if this edge case was ever explicitly considered.If it is widely understood that all markers are part of a single attribute, I guess you could say that this is just expected behavior as per MRO. However, I'd argue that it would be more intuitive to attempt to merge marker values into one, possibly deduplicating marker names by MRO.
I'd expect
fooandbarto be markers fortest_dings, but this only actually is the case with this metaclass.Please note that the repro case is Python 2/3 compatible excluding how metaclasses are added to
Base(this needs to be taken care of to repro this issue on pytest 6)