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Improve warning messages when addoption is called with string as type #3801

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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
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Expand Up @@ -174,23 +174,23 @@ def __init__(self, *names, **attrs):
if isinstance(typ, six.string_types):
if typ == "choice":
warnings.warn(
"type argument to addoption() is a string %r."
" For parsearg this is optional and when supplied"
" should be a type."
"`type` argument to addoption() is the string %r."
" For choices this is optional and can be omitted, "
" but when supplied should be a type (for example `str` or `int`)."
" (options: %s)" % (typ, names),
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=3,
stacklevel=4,
)
# argparse expects a type here take it from
# the type of the first element
attrs["type"] = type(attrs["choices"][0])
else:
warnings.warn(
"type argument to addoption() is a string %r."
" For parsearg this should be a type."
"`type` argument to addoption() is the string %r, "
" but when supplied should be a type (for example `str` or `int`)."
" (options: %s)" % (typ, names),
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=3,
stacklevel=4,
)
attrs["type"] = Argument._typ_map[typ]
# used in test_parseopt -> test_parse_defaultgetter
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