Disable PyTest Recursion Checking?

Question

When I run PyTest, I get some tests failing with

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!!! Recursion detected (same locals & position)

However when I run the tests manually, I see that there is no infinite recursion. My code does do some weird stuff that probably trick's pytest's recursion detector.

Is there a way to disable recursion checking for certain tests?

I'm running PyTest 3.0.1

Answer 1

If you are setting return_value on a mocked function that is referenced by your recursive code, use side_effect instead.