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pytest discovery seems to fail in Python 3.8

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Environment data

VS Code version: 1.4.10-insiders
Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.12.51221-dev
OS and version: macOS 10.15.1
Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.8.0
Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): pyenv
Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: pytest 5.3.1
Jedi or Language Server? (i.e. what is "python.jediEnabled" set to; more info #3977): Language Server

Expected behaviour

Discovery tests works fine.

Actual behaviour

Discovery tests fails with error

SyntaxError: Unexpected token  in JSON at position 0"

Steps to reproduce:

I think this occurs only in Python 3.8 (the same code, in Python 3.7 works fine). The cause may be because in Python 3.8 pytests returns a the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses warning. Not sure if that may be crashing the parsing of the output.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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brettcannoncommented, Nov 29, 2019

Thanks for the bug report! We just wanted to quickly acknowledge we received it and we will triage this as soon as we can.

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ericsnowcurrentlycommented, Dec 11, 2019

Glad to help!

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