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`pytest -k` should ignore private attributes (starting with `_`)

See original GitHub issue

I originally opened this issue in hypothesis, but they told me to open it here https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis/issues/2508.

When I run pytest -k name, and name only matches hypothesis tests, pytest runs all hypothesis tests, not just the ones that match. When name matches a non-hypothesis test, it only picks the tests that contain name as expected.

I am using pytest 5.4.3 and hypothesis 5.21.0. It happens even when I set aside my pytest.ini and conftest.py.

You can reproduce this at the repo https://github.com/Quansight/ndindex/ by running pytest -v -k repr.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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asottilecommented, Jul 26, 2020

this behaviour has existed since pytest 2.4.0 but as far as I can tell is undocumented (and wasn’t called out in the changelog)

I think at least this should be documented and improved to avoid underscored names (this would solve this particular issue, but I think would be a reasonable baseline expectation)

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nicoddemuscommented, Jul 27, 2020

I think at least this should be documented

Created #7546 to track this.

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