diff --git a/docs/known-limitations.rst b/docs/known-limitations.rst index 04641a7..a081a0b 100644 --- a/docs/known-limitations.rst +++ b/docs/known-limitations.rst @@ -50,3 +50,12 @@ Some solutions: @pytest.mark.parametrize("param", sorted({"a", "b"})) def test_pytest_parametrize_unordered(param): pass + +Output (stdout and stderr) from workers +--------------------------------------- + +The ``-s``/``--capture=no`` option is meant to disable pytest capture, so users can then see stdout and stderr output in the terminal from tests and application code in real time. + +However this option does not work with ``pytest-xdist`` because `execnet `__ the underlying library used for communication between master and workers, does not support transferring stdout/stderr from workers. + +Currenlty there are no plans ot support this in ``pytest-xdist``.