FR: Revert pytest.warns(None) changes

What’s the problem this feature will solve?

I need to dynamically catch warnings where whether the warning is issued or not depends on information that is only available at runtime.

Describe the solution you’d like

Accept pytest.warns(None) as equivalent to pytest.warns() without error

warn_typ = FutureWarning if dt_s_tup[0] == "nc" else None

model = VAR(endog, exog)
with pytest.warns(warn_typ):
    results_per_deterministic_terms[dt_s_tup] = model.fit(
        maxlags=4, trend=dt_s_tup[0], method="ols"
    )

from

https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/blob/948bfc4520791b2d867829259367f446bd107218/statsmodels/tsa/vector_ar/tests/test_var_jmulti.py#L133-L139

Alternative Solutions

I don’t see any workaround. As far as I know there is not easy way to work around this. Is the solution to use an empty *args expansion?

This removal seems to have missed the relative challenge of calling a function with 1 argument vs 0 arguments.

Additional context

[bashtage]

@Zac-HD We can’t run with -Werror because of past sins and far too many warnings int he test suite, so that isn’t viable. It would be a big improvement if there was an API way to pass a value that would indicate whether there is no error expected rather than no value for this case and a value in other cases. It ultimately makes for hard to write code. Similarly with the idea of pytest.does_not_raise() which can’t be used at runtime in a sane way when code might process a warning under some circumstance but not others in parameterized tests.

Unfortunately this is off the table, because it would be a backwards-incompatible change compared to both the current and pre-deprecation behaviour (when passing None effectively disabled the check entirely).

As far as I can see the pending change is also backward incompatible since it will raise an error for pytest.raises(None), so I don’t see any fundamental reason why the behavior of None couldn’t be made to be no warning, as many thing it is, and pytest.raises(Warning) could be made to raise any warning.

[nicoddemus]

Please see https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9404.