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Ran Benita 73448f265d Handle EPIPE/BrokenPipeError in pytest's CLI
Running `pytest | head -1` and similar causes an annoying error to be
printed to stderr:

    Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>
    BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

(or possibly even a propagating exception in older/other Python versions).

The standard UNIX behavior is to handle the EPIPE silently. To
recommended method to do this in Python is described here:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#note-on-sigpipe

It is not appropriate to apply this recommendation to `pytest.main()`,
which is used programmatically for in-process runs. Hence, change
pytest's entrypoint to a new `pytest.console_main()` function, to be
used exclusively by pytest's CLI, and add the SIGPIPE code there.

Fixes #4375.
2020-05-08 12:51:02 +03:00