From c1d134172cff3787dbfe51cd154af8f8d4b5e556 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn1313@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:36:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add typing for FixtureRequest.param (#10133)

For now, mark it as Any until #8073 is solved

Fixes #9514
---
 AUTHORS                   |  1 +
 changelog/9514.bugfix.rst |  1 +
 src/_pytest/fixtures.py   | 11 ++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog/9514.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 09fe12e00..b0669ba29 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ Nicholas Murphy
 Niclas Olofsson
 Nicolas Delaby
 Nikolay Kondratyev
+Nipunn Koorapati
 Olga Matoula
 Oleg Pidsadnyi
 Oleg Sushchenko
diff --git a/changelog/9514.bugfix.rst b/changelog/9514.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a940b5c72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/9514.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Type-annotate ``FixtureRequest.param`` as ``Any`` as a stop gap measure until :issue:`8073` is fixed.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/fixtures.py b/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
index 32c3ec4b0..d1d36d7fa 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ def reorder_items_atscope(
     return items_done
 
 
-def get_direct_param_fixture_func(request):
+def get_direct_param_fixture_func(request: "FixtureRequest") -> Any:
     return request.param
 
 
@@ -407,6 +407,15 @@ class FixtureRequest:
         self._arg2fixturedefs = fixtureinfo.name2fixturedefs.copy()
         self._arg2index: Dict[str, int] = {}
         self._fixturemanager: FixtureManager = pyfuncitem.session._fixturemanager
+        # Notes on the type of `param`:
+        # -`request.param` is only defined in parametrized fixtures, and will raise
+        #   AttributeError otherwise. Python typing has no notion of "undefined", so
+        #   this cannot be reflected in the type.
+        # - Technically `param` is only (possibly) defined on SubRequest, not
+        #   FixtureRequest, but the typing of that is still in flux so this cheats.
+        # - In the future we might consider using a generic for the param type, but
+        #   for now just using Any.
+        self.param: Any
 
     @property
     def scope(self) -> "_ScopeName":