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refactor: dispatch config file loading by filename, then suffix
RonnyPfannschmidt Jul 31, 2026
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fix: validate -c/--config-file and read [pytest] from custom TOML files
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions changelog/11502.bugfix.rst
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The ``rootdir`` is no longer derived from a configuration file that is not a regular file, such as ``--config-file=/dev/null``.
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TOML configuration files passed via :option:`-c` now also read their configuration from the ``[pytest]`` table, the one pytest's own configuration files use. The ``[tool.pytest]`` and ``[tool.pytest.ini_options]`` tables such files were previously restricted to keep working; using both styles in one file is an error.
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:option:`-c` now raises a usage error for a path that does not exist, is a directory, or is in a format pytest has no loader for. Such paths were previously either ignored or reported as an unhandled ``FileNotFoundError``.
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