Issue1035 getattr

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 2.8.3.dev
 ---------
 
+- fix #1035: collecting tests if test module level obj has __getattr__().
+  Thanks Suor for the report and Bruno Oliveira / Tom Viner for the PR.
 
 2.8.2
 -----

_pytest/python.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import functools
 import py
 import inspect
+import types
 import sys
 import pytest
 from _pytest.mark import MarkDecorator, MarkerError
@@ -43,6 +44,14 @@ def _format_args(func):
     def _format_args(func):
         return inspect.formatargspec(*inspect.getargspec(func))
 
+if  sys.version_info[:2] == (2, 6):
+    def isclass(object):
+        """ Return true if the object is a class. Overrides inspect.isclass for
+        python 2.6 because it will return True for objects which always return
+        something on __getattr__ calls (see #1035).
+        Backport of https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/35bf8f7a8edc
+        """
+        return isinstance(object, (type, types.ClassType))
 
 def _has_positional_arg(func):
     return func.__code__.co_argcount
@@ -2137,7 +2146,7 @@ def num_mock_patch_args(function):
 
 def getfuncargnames(function, startindex=None):
     # XXX merge with main.py's varnames
-    #assert not inspect.isclass(function)
+    #assert not isclass(function)
     realfunction = function
     while hasattr(realfunction, "__wrapped__"):
         realfunction = realfunction.__wrapped__

testing/python/collect.py

@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@ def teardown_class(cls):
             "*1 passed*",
         ])
 
+    def test_issue1035_obj_has_getattr(self, testdir):
+        modcol = testdir.getmodulecol("""
+            class Chameleon(object):
+                def __getattr__(self, name):
+                    return True
+            chameleon = Chameleon()
+        """)
+        colitems = modcol.collect()
+        assert len(colitems) == 0
+
 
 class TestGenerator:
     def test_generative_functions(self, testdir):