Bug Fix 11282: config.getini returns an empty list for an option of type string absent in INI file

testing/test_conftest.py

@@ -224,23 +224,23 @@ def test_setinitial_conftest_subdirs(pytester: Pytester, name: str) -> None:
 def test_my_option(pytester: Pytester):
     testdir = pytester.mkdir("test_my_option")
     conftest_content = """
-        import pytest
-        def pytest_addoption(parser):
-            parser.addini(
-                "my_option",
-                type="string",
-                default=None,
-                help="My option",
-            )
-        @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
-        def my_option(request):
-            return request.config.getini("my_option")
+    import pytest
+    def pytest_addoption(parser):
+        parser.addini(
+            "my_option",
+            type="string",
+            default=None,
+            help="My option",
+        )
+    @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
+    def my_option(request):
+        return request.config.getini("my_option")
     """
     testdir.joinpath("conftest.py").write_text(conftest_content, encoding="utf-8")
     # Create a simple test function
     test_content = """
-        def test_example(my_option):
-            assert my_option is None
+    def test_example(my_option):
+        assert my_option is None
     """
     testdir.joinpath("test_my_option.py").write_text(test_content, encoding="utf-8")
     result = pytester.runpytest(str(testdir))