`Parser` is used by many plugins and custom hooks. `OptionGroup` is
exposed by the `parser.addgroup` API.
The constructors of both are marked private, they are not meant to be
constructed directly.
This type is most prominent in `pytest.raises` and we should allow to
refer to it by a public name.
The type is not in a perfectly "exposable" state. In particular:
- The `traceback` property with type `Traceback` which is derived from
the `py.code` API and exposes a bunch more types transitively. This
stuff is *not* exported and probably won't be.
- The `getrepr` method which probably should be private.
But they're already used in the wild so no point in just hiding them
now.
The __init__ API is hidden -- the public API for this are the `from_*`
classmethods.
The type cannot be constructed directly, but is exported for use in type
annotations, since it is reachable through existing public API.
This also documents `from_call` as public, because at least
pytest-forked uses it, so we must treat it as public already anyway.
In order to allow users to type annotate fixtures they request, the
types need to be imported from the `pytest` namespace. They are/were
always available to import from the `_pytest` namespace, but that is
not guaranteed to be stable.
These types are only exported for the purpose of typing. Specifically,
the following are *not* public:
- Construction (`__init__`)
- Subclassing
- staticmethods and classmethods
We try to combat them being used anyway by:
- Marking the classes as `@final` when possible (already done).
- Not documenting private stuff in the API Reference.
- Using `_`-prefixed names or marking as `:meta private:` for private
stuff.
- Adding a keyword-only `_ispytest=False` to private constructors,
warning if False, and changing pytest itself to pass True. In the
future it will (hopefully) become a hard error.
Hopefully that will be enough.
Eric Liu
Ran Benita