Monkeypatch the 'pytest_terminal_summary'

[viralmutant]

I am using pytest 4.0.0 and I wish to define my own pytest_terminal_summary for a test module

But the existing framework has defined global in top-level conftest.py and using import conftest so my local contest.py doesn't work. I know this is not recommended, but it is what it is :(

Since I can't change hence I am trying to override the pytest_teriminal_summary so I though of monkeypatch it

I was reading through examples and the issue #363 and this is what I am trying

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def monkeysession():
    from _pytest.monkeypatch import MonkeyPatch
    mpatch = MonkeyPatch()
    yield mpatch
    mpatch.undo()

@pytest.fixture(scope='session', autouse=True)
def override_terminal(monkeysession):
  def pytest_my_terminal(a,b):
    print("This is my summary")
  monkeysession.setattr(conftest, 'pytest_terminal_summary', pytest_my_terminal)

But it doesn't seem to work. Any other suggestions are also welcome

[viralmutant]

Hi
Any suggestions on this ?

[viralmutant]

I was able to workaround this by having my pytest_terminal_summary hook in py file. Then including that as pytest_plugins=[...] in the test module.
Note: I had to invoke the tests with python3 -m pytest to let it find the locally available module, but that is ok