[ci] Override Request in pytests (apache#11974)

This follows on apache#11839 to apply it outside of docs and to tests running under pytest instead

Co-authored-by: driazati <driazati@users.noreply.github.com>

conftest.py

@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@
 # under the License.
 import hashlib
 import pytest
+import sys
 import os
-from collections import OrderedDict
+
+from pathlib import Path
 
 pytest_plugins = ["tvm.testing.plugin"]
+IS_IN_CI = os.getenv("CI", "") == "true"
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 
 
 # These are long running tests (manually curated and extracted from CI logs)
@@ -96,3 +100,12 @@ def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):
                 reason=f"Test running on shard {item_shard_index} of {num_shards}",
             )
         )
+
+
+def pytest_sessionstart():
+    if IS_IN_CI:
+        hook_script_dir = REPO_ROOT / "tests" / "scripts" / "request_hook"
+        sys.path.append(str(hook_script_dir))
+        import request_hook  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
+        request_hook.init()