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.
Add a very lax mypy configuration, add it to tox -e linting, and
fix/ignore the few errors that come up. The idea is to get it running
before diving in too much.
This enables:
- Progressively adding type annotations and enabling more strict
options, which will improve the codebase (IMO).
- Annotating the public API in-line, and eventually exposing it to
library users who use type checkers (with a py.typed file).
Though, none of this is done yet.
Refs https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3342.
* Update setup.py requires and classifiers
* Drop Python 2.7 and 3.4 from CI
* Update docs dropping 2.7 and 3.4 support
* Fix mock imports and remove tests related to pypi's mock module
* Add py27 and 34 support docs to the sidebar
* Remove usage of six from tmpdir
* Remove six.PY* code blocks
* Remove sys.version_info related code
* Cleanup compat
* Remove obsolete safe_str
* Remove obsolete __unicode__ methods
* Remove compat.PY35 and compat.PY36: not really needed anymore
* Remove unused UNICODE_TYPES
* Remove Jython specific code
* Remove some Python 2 references from docs
Related to #5275