How to print to console in pytest?

Question

I\'m trying to use TDD (test-driven development) with pytest. pytest will not print to the console when I use print.

Answer 1

I needed to print important warning about skipped tests exactly when PyTest muted literally everything.

I didn't want to fail a test to send a signal, so I did a hack as follow:

def test_2_YellAboutBrokenAndMutedTests():
    import atexit
    def report():
        print C_patch.tidy_text("""
In silent mode PyTest breaks low level stream structure I work with, so
I cannot test if my functionality work fine. I skipped corresponding tests.
Run `py.test -s` to make sure everything is tested.""")
    if sys.stdout != sys.__stdout__:
        atexit.register(report)

The atexit module allows me to print stuff after PyTest released the output streams. The output looks as follow:

============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.3, pytest-2.9.2, py-1.4.31, pluggy-0.3.1
rootdir: /media/Storage/henaro/smyth/Alchemist2-git/sources/C_patch, inifile: 
collected 15 items 

test_C_patch.py .....ssss....s.

===================== 10 passed, 5 skipped in 0.15 seconds =====================
In silent mode PyTest breaks low level stream structure I work with, so
I cannot test if my functionality work fine. I skipped corresponding tests.
Run `py.test -s` to make sure everything is tested.
~/.../sources/C_patch$

Message is printed even when PyTest is in silent mode, and is not printed if you run stuff with py.test -s, so everything is tested nicely already.