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An unregistered pytest marker only warns, so a typo in a mark name silently selects nothing

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:57.864Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:57.864Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Applying @pytest.mark.slwo instead of @pytest.mark.slow is not an error. pytest emits PytestUnknownMarkWarning: Unknown pytest.mark.slwo - is this a typo? You can register custom marks to avoid this warning and continues, so pytest -m slow runs zero tests and reports success.

Register every custom marker in the configuration under markers, one per line as name: description. Once registered, the warning distinguishes real markers from typos, and pytest --markers lists them with their descriptions.

Turn the warning into a failure with filterwarnings = error::pytest.PytestUnknownMarkWarning in the ini file, or use --strict-markers on the command line, which makes an unregistered marker a collection error. Adding --strict-markers to addopts is the version that protects everyone rather than whoever remembers the flag. The same reasoning applies to -k expressions, which match against test names and silently select nothing when misspelled, so check the collected count rather than trusting a green run.

Source: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/mark.html

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