pytest: I am getting error "pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --show-capture=no" while executing tests using pytest

Command i am trying to execute: pytest --show-capture=no -v --dsn="emulator-5554" -m bat --reruns=2

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usage: pytest [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --show-capture=no
  inifile: /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-agent/workdir/54/workspace/test/pytest.ini
  rootdir: /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-agent/workdir/54/workspace/test
usage: pytest [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --show-capture=no
  inifile: /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-agent/workdir/54/workspace/test/pytest.ini
  rootdir: /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-agent/workdir/54/workspace/test
usage: pytest [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --show-capture=no
  inifile: /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-agent/workdir/54/workspace/test/pytest.ini
  rootdir: /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-agent/workdir/54/workspace/test

Pytest version i am using:

This is pytest version 5.3.5, imported from /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-ag...-packages/pytest/__init__.py
setuptools registered plugins:
pytest-rerunfailures-8.0 at /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-ag...ages/pytest_rerunfailures.py
pytest-cov-2.3.1 at /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jaiadi/kats-ag...ackages/pytest_cov/plugin.py

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments: 15 (8 by maintainers)

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I think I get why this error happens. Since option is defined in tests/conftest.py it exists inside tests. Whenever I run pytest outside tests I get unrecognized argument error.

neumond on Apr 16, 2020

in my case I was just missing the package

pip install pytest-asyncio==0.20.1

raphaelauv on May 5, 2023

Please update the rerunfailures plugin as well, and please start to use the code formatting feature of github, it’s painful to read unformatted pastes

RonnyPfannschmidt on Mar 15, 2020