How to make pytest wait for (manual) user action?

Question

We are sucessfully using pytest (Python 3) to run a test suite testing some hardware devices (electronics). For a subset of these tests, we need the tester to change the hardwa

Answer 1

Solutions that use the global pytest.config object no longer work. For my use case, using --capture=sys together with a custom input() that uses stdin and stdout directly works well.

def fd_input(prompt):
    with os.fdopen(os.dup(1), "w") as stdout:
        stdout.write("\n{}? ".format(prompt))

    with os.fdopen(os.dup(2), "r") as stdin:
        return stdin.readline()