Multiple calls to the pytest.main API gives you the same results

[joeyespo]

I'm using pytest.main in a plugin. It runs tests and uses Watchdog to listen for file changes. When a file changes, it runs pytest.main again.

Pytest seems to be using a cached version of the tests instead of re-running them with new results.

[hpk42]

pytest makes not attempt to unload the test and packaging modules which were imported during the test run. It could probably do that, maybe there is a plugin already doing this. But i usually consider it better for isolation to run tests in a subprocess which is what "pytest-xdist" is doing in its "loop-on-failure" mode.

[joeyespo]

Ok. Thank you, @hpk42 !