Merge pull request #4555 from nicoddemus/remove-record-xml-pytest-main-str

Remove record_xml_property and support for strings in pytest.main()

testing/acceptance_test.py

@@ -559,12 +559,11 @@ class TestInvocationVariants(object):
     def test_equivalence_pytest_pytest(self):
         assert pytest.main == py.test.cmdline.main
 
-    def test_invoke_with_string(self, capsys):
-        retcode = pytest.main("-h")
-        assert not retcode
-        out, err = capsys.readouterr()
-        assert "--help" in out
-        pytest.raises(ValueError, lambda: pytest.main(0))
+    def test_invoke_with_invalid_type(self, capsys):
+        with pytest.raises(
+            TypeError, match="expected to be a list or tuple of strings, got: '-h'"
+        ):
+            pytest.main("-h")
 
     def test_invoke_with_path(self, tmpdir, capsys):
         retcode = pytest.main(tmpdir)

testing/deprecated_test.py

@@ -40,25 +40,6 @@ def test_pytest_custom_cfg_deprecated(testdir):
     )
 
 
-def test_str_args_deprecated(tmpdir):
-    """Deprecate passing strings to pytest.main(). Scheduled for removal in pytest-4.0."""
-    from _pytest.main import EXIT_NOTESTSCOLLECTED
-
-    warnings = []
-
-    class Collect(object):
-        def pytest_warning_captured(self, warning_message):
-            warnings.append(str(warning_message.message))
-
-    ret = pytest.main("%s -x" % tmpdir, plugins=[Collect()])
-    msg = (
-        "passing a string to pytest.main() is deprecated, "
-        "pass a list of arguments instead."
-    )
-    assert msg in warnings
-    assert ret == EXIT_NOTESTSCOLLECTED
-
-
 def test_getfuncargvalue_is_deprecated(request):
     pytest.deprecated_call(request.getfuncargvalue, "tmpdir")