Unable to debug in pycharm with pytest

Question

I cannot debug in PyCharm using py.test. All the test suite is running ok in "Debug mode" but it doesn't stop on breakpoints.

I also have py.test as the default test runner.

Maybe this is not important, but debugging works correctly in my Django server.

Any ideas?

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References:

pycharm-enabling-disabling-and-removing-breakpoints

Run/Debug Configuration: py.test

Answer 1

For my situation, i found what the problem is:

If there is --cov in pytest.ini, then breakpoints in pycharm won't work, after deleting all --cov in pytest.ini, the breakpoints in pycharm can work.

Reason:

"The coverage module and pycharm's debugger use the same tracing api (sys.settrace) - they don't work together. " -- https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/131

References:

How to debug py.test in PyCharm when coverage is enabled