remove non-documented per-conftest capturing option and simplify/refactor all code accordingly. Also make capturing more robust against tests closing FD1/2 and against pdb.set_trace() calls.

_pytest/capture.py

@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ patchsysdict = {0: 'stdin', 1: 'stdout', 2: 'stderr'}
 def pytest_addoption(parser):
     group = parser.getgroup("general")
     group._addoption(
-        '--capture', action="store", default=None,
+        '--capture', action="store", 
+        default="fd" if hasattr(os, "dup") else "sys",
         metavar="method", choices=['fd', 'sys', 'no'],
-        help="per-test capturing method: one of fd (default)|sys|no.")
+        help="per-test capturing method: one of fd|sys|no.")
     group._addoption(
         '-s', action="store_const", const="no", dest="capture",
         help="shortcut for --capture=no.")
@@ -32,16 +33,13 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 @pytest.mark.tryfirst
 def pytest_load_initial_conftests(early_config, parser, args, __multicall__):
     ns = parser.parse_known_args(args)
-    method = ns.capture
-    if not method:
-        method = "fd"
-    if method == "fd" and not hasattr(os, "dup"):
-        method = "sys"
     pluginmanager = early_config.pluginmanager
+    method = ns.capture
     if method != "no":
         dupped_stdout = safe_text_dupfile(sys.stdout, "wb")
         pluginmanager.register(dupped_stdout, "dupped_stdout")
             #pluginmanager.add_shutdown(dupped_stdout.close)
+
     capman = CaptureManager(method)
     pluginmanager.register(capman, "capturemanager")
 
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ def pytest_load_initial_conftests(early_config, parser, args, __multicall__):
     pluginmanager.add_shutdown(silence_logging_at_shutdown)
 
     # finally trigger conftest loading but while capturing (issue93)
-    capman.resumecapture()
+    capman.init_capturings()
     try:
         try:
             return __multicall__.execute()
@@ -67,11 +65,9 @@ def pytest_load_initial_conftests(early_config, parser, args, __multicall__):
         raise
 
 
-
 class CaptureManager:
-    def __init__(self, defaultmethod=None):
+    def __init__(self, method):
-        self._method2capture = {}
+        self._method = method
-        self._defaultmethod = defaultmethod
 
     def _getcapture(self, method):
         if method == "fd":
@@ -83,52 +79,26 @@ class CaptureManager:
         else:
             raise ValueError("unknown capturing method: %r" % method)
 
-    def _getmethod(self, config, fspath):
+    def init_capturings(self):
-        if config.option.capture:
+        assert not hasattr(self, "_capturing")
-            method = config.option.capture
+        self._capturing = self._getcapture(self._method)
-        else:
+        self._capturing.start_capturing()
-            try:
-                method = config._conftest.rget("option_capture", path=fspath)
-            except KeyError:
-                method = "fd"
-        if method == "fd" and not hasattr(os, 'dup'):  # e.g. jython
-            method = "sys"
-        return method
 
     def reset_capturings(self):
-        for cap in self._method2capture.values():
+        cap = self.__dict__.pop("_capturing", None)
+        if cap is not None:
             cap.pop_outerr_to_orig()
             cap.stop_capturing()
-        self._method2capture.clear()
 
-    def resumecapture_item(self, item):
+    def resumecapture(self):
-        method = self._getmethod(item.config, item.fspath)
+        self._capturing.resume_capturing()
-        return self.resumecapture(method)
 
-    def resumecapture(self, method=None):
+    def suspendcapture(self, in_=False):
-        if hasattr(self, '_capturing'):
-            raise ValueError(
-                "cannot resume, already capturing with %r" %
-                (self._capturing,))
-        if method is None:
-            method = self._defaultmethod
-        cap = self._method2capture.get(method)
-        self._capturing = method
-        if cap is None:
-            self._method2capture[method] = cap = self._getcapture(method)
-            cap.start_capturing()
-        else:
-            cap.resume_capturing()
-
-    def suspendcapture(self, item=None):
         self.deactivate_funcargs()
-        method = self.__dict__.pop("_capturing", None)
+        cap = getattr(self, "_capturing", None)
-        outerr = "", ""
-        if method is not None:
-            cap = self._method2capture.get(method)
         if cap is not None:
             outerr = cap.readouterr()
-                cap.suspend_capturing()
+            cap.suspend_capturing(in_=in_)
             return outerr
 
     def activate_funcargs(self, pyfuncitem):
@@ -142,28 +112,20 @@ class CaptureManager:
         if capfuncarg is not None:
             capfuncarg.close()
 
-    @pytest.mark.hookwrapper
+    @pytest.mark.tryfirst
     def pytest_make_collect_report(self, __multicall__, collector):
-        method = self._getmethod(collector.config, collector.fspath)
+        if not isinstance(collector, pytest.File):
-        try:
-            self.resumecapture(method)
-        except ValueError:
-            yield
-            # recursive collect, XXX refactor capturing
-            # to allow for more lightweight recursive capturing
             return
-        yield
+        self.resumecapture()
+        try:
+            rep = __multicall__.execute()
+        finally:
             out, err = self.suspendcapture()
-        # XXX getting the report from the ongoing hook call is a bit
-        # of a hack.  We need to think about capturing during collection
-        # and find out if it's really needed fine-grained (per
-        # collector).
-        if __multicall__.results:
-            rep = __multicall__.results[0]
         if out:
             rep.sections.append(("Captured stdout", out))
         if err:
             rep.sections.append(("Captured stderr", err))
+        return rep
 
     @pytest.mark.hookwrapper
     def pytest_runtest_setup(self, item):
@@ -192,9 +154,9 @@ class CaptureManager:
 
     @contextlib.contextmanager
     def item_capture_wrapper(self, item, when):
-        self.resumecapture_item(item)
+        self.resumecapture()
         yield
-        out, err = self.suspendcapture(item)
+        out, err = self.suspendcapture()
         item.add_report_section(when, "out", out)
         item.add_report_section(when, "err", err)
 
@@ -238,14 +200,14 @@ class CaptureFixture:
     def close(self):
         cap = self.__dict__.pop("_capture", None)
         if cap is not None:
-            cap.pop_outerr_to_orig()
+            self._outerr = cap.pop_outerr_to_orig()
             cap.stop_capturing()
 
     def readouterr(self):
         try:
             return self._capture.readouterr()
         except AttributeError:
-            return "", ""
+            return self._outerr
 
 
 def safe_text_dupfile(f, mode, default_encoding="UTF8"):
@@ -311,18 +273,25 @@ class MultiCapture(object):
             self.out.writeorg(out)
         if err:
             self.err.writeorg(err)
+        return out, err
 
-    def suspend_capturing(self):
+    def suspend_capturing(self, in_=False):
         if self.out:
             self.out.suspend()
         if self.err:
             self.err.suspend()
+        if in_ and self.in_:
+            self.in_.suspend()
+            self._in_suspended = True
 
     def resume_capturing(self):
         if self.out:
             self.out.resume()
         if self.err:
             self.err.resume()
+        if hasattr(self, "_in_suspended"):
+            self.in_.resume()
+            del self._in_suspended
 
     def stop_capturing(self):
         """ stop capturing and reset capturing streams """
@@ -394,6 +363,7 @@ class FDCapture:
             f.truncate(0)
             f.seek(0)
             return res
+        return ''
 
     def done(self):
         """ stop capturing, restore streams, return original capture file,

_pytest/pdb.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class pytestPDB:
         if self._pluginmanager is not None:
             capman = self._pluginmanager.getplugin("capturemanager")
             if capman:
-                capman.reset_capturings()
+                capman.suspendcapture(in_=True)
             tw = py.io.TerminalWriter()
             tw.line()
             tw.sep(">", "PDB set_trace (IO-capturing turned off)")
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ class PdbInvoke:
     def pytest_exception_interact(self, node, call, report):
         capman = node.config.pluginmanager.getplugin("capturemanager")
         if capman:
-            capman.reset_capturings()
+            capman.suspendcapture(in_=True)
-        return _enter_pdb(node, call.excinfo, report)
+        _enter_pdb(node, call.excinfo, report)
 
     def pytest_internalerror(self, excrepr, excinfo):
         for line in str(excrepr).split("\n"):

testing/test_capture.py

@@ -53,78 +53,53 @@ def StdCapture(out=True, err=True, in_=True):
 
 
 class TestCaptureManager:
-    def test_getmethod_default_no_fd(self, testdir, monkeypatch):
+    def test_getmethod_default_no_fd(self, monkeypatch):
-        config = testdir.parseconfig(testdir.tmpdir)
+        from _pytest.capture import pytest_addoption
-        assert config.getvalue("capture") is None
+        from _pytest.config import Parser
-        capman = CaptureManager()
+        parser = Parser()
+        pytest_addoption(parser)
+        default = parser._groups[0].options[0].default
+        assert default == "fd" if hasattr(os, "dup") else "sys"
+        parser = Parser()
         monkeypatch.delattr(os, 'dup', raising=False)
-        try:
+        pytest_addoption(parser)
-            assert capman._getmethod(config, None) == "sys"
+        assert parser._groups[0].options[0].default == "sys"
-        finally:
-            monkeypatch.undo()
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("mode", "no fd sys".split())
-    def test_configure_per_fspath(self, testdir, mode):
-        config = testdir.parseconfig(testdir.tmpdir)
-        capman = CaptureManager()
-        hasfd = hasattr(os, 'dup')
-        if hasfd:
-            assert capman._getmethod(config, None) == "fd"
-        else:
-            assert capman._getmethod(config, None) == "sys"
-
-        if not hasfd and mode == 'fd':
-            return
-        sub = testdir.tmpdir.mkdir("dir" + mode)
-        sub.ensure("__init__.py")
-        sub.join("conftest.py").write('option_capture = %r' % mode)
-        assert capman._getmethod(config, sub.join("test_hello.py")) == mode
 
     @needsosdup
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("method", ['no', 'fd', 'sys'])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("method", 
+        ['no', 'sys', pytest.mark.skipif('not hasattr(os, "dup")', 'fd')])
     def test_capturing_basic_api(self, method):
         capouter = StdCaptureFD()
         old = sys.stdout, sys.stderr, sys.stdin
         try:
-            capman = CaptureManager()
+            capman = CaptureManager(method)
-            # call suspend without resume or start
+            capman.init_capturings()
-            outerr = capman.suspendcapture()
+            outerr = capman.suspendcapture()
+            assert outerr == ("", "")
             outerr = capman.suspendcapture()
             assert outerr == ("", "")
-            capman.resumecapture(method)
             print ("hello")
             out, err = capman.suspendcapture()
             if method == "no":
                 assert old == (sys.stdout, sys.stderr, sys.stdin)
             else:
-                assert out == "hello\n"
+                assert not out
-            capman.resumecapture(method)
+            capman.resumecapture()
+            print ("hello")
             out, err = capman.suspendcapture()
-            assert not out and not err
+            if method != "no":
+                assert out == "hello\n"
             capman.reset_capturings()
         finally:
             capouter.stop_capturing()
 
     @needsosdup
-    def test_juggle_capturings(self, testdir):
+    def test_init_capturing(self):
         capouter = StdCaptureFD()
         try:
-            #config = testdir.parseconfig(testdir.tmpdir)
+            capman = CaptureManager("fd")
-            capman = CaptureManager()
+            capman.init_capturings()
-            try:
+            pytest.raises(AssertionError, "capman.init_capturings()")
-                capman.resumecapture("fd")
-                pytest.raises(ValueError, 'capman.resumecapture("fd")')
-                pytest.raises(ValueError, 'capman.resumecapture("sys")')
-                os.write(1, "hello\n".encode('ascii'))
-                out, err = capman.suspendcapture()
-                assert out == "hello\n"
-                capman.resumecapture("sys")
-                os.write(1, "hello\n".encode('ascii'))
-                py.builtin.print_("world", file=sys.stderr)
-                out, err = capman.suspendcapture()
-                assert not out
-                assert err == "world\n"
-            finally:
             capman.reset_capturings()
         finally:
             capouter.stop_capturing()
@@ -991,7 +966,7 @@ def test_close_and_capture_again(testdir):
         def test_close():
             os.close(1)
         def test_capture_again():
-            os.write(1, "hello\\n")
+            os.write(1, b"hello\\n")
             assert 0
     """)
     result = testdir.runpytest()

testing/test_pdb.py

@@ -167,6 +167,26 @@ class TestPDB:
         if child.isalive():
             child.wait()
 
+    def test_set_trace_capturing_afterwards(self, testdir):
+        p1 = testdir.makepyfile("""
+            import pdb
+            def test_1():
+                pdb.set_trace()
+            def test_2():
+                print ("hello")
+                assert 0
+        """)
+        child = testdir.spawn_pytest(str(p1))
+        child.expect("test_1")
+        child.send("c\n")
+        child.expect("test_2")
+        child.expect("Captured")
+        child.expect("hello")
+        child.sendeof()
+        child.read()
+        if child.isalive():
+            child.wait()
+
     @xfail_if_pdbpp_installed
     def test_pdb_interaction_doctest(self, testdir):
         p1 = testdir.makepyfile("""