Test if code is executed from within a py.test session

Question

I\'d like to connect to a different database if my code is running under py.test. Is there a function to call or an environment variable that I can test that will tell me i

Answer 1

Working with pytest==4.3.1 the methods above failed, so I just went old school and checked with:

if 'pytest' in sys.argv[0]:
  print('pytest was called!')