_pytest.pytester.Testdir missing in objects.inv

[PhilippSelenium]

I don't know if this was by choice or by accident but the documentation for _pytest.pytester.Testdir is missing in the intersphinx file:

python3 -m sphinx.ext.intersphinx https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/objects.inv | grep Testdir

pytest version: 6.1.1

[nicoddemus]

Hi @PhilippSelenium,

That's due to #7854: we introduced Pytester, and because Testdir and Pytester both have the same interface, we decided to show the members of Pytester in the docs only: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/reference.html#pytest.pytester.Pytester.

However thinking about this a bit more I'm not sure this is ideal: Pytester now will tend to gain extra functionality which we don't plan to backport to Testdir (I think at least), so we really should show members of both classes in the docs.

Also notice that your link points to the "latest" docs, which are actually master, for version 6.1.1 you should use https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/objects.inv instead, which still contain the intersphinx docs for Testdir.

[PhilippSelenium]

@nicoddemus Thanks for the hint. I should use stable.