Python 3.4 tests failing on Travis

[effigies]

Summary

Looks like either a pytest or a pytest-xdist problem. Perhaps one of them stopped supporting 3.4.

From #6217.17:

$ py.test -v --cov nipype --cov-config .coveragerc --cov-report xml:cov.xml -c nipype/pytest.ini --doctest-modules nipype
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 510, in load_setuptools_entrypoints
    plugin = ep.load()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2301, in load
    self.require(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in require
    items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer, extras=self.extras)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 859, in resolve
    raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (pytest 3.0.7 (/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages), Requirement.parse('pytest>=3.6.0'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/bin/py.test", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/config.py", line 47, in main
    config = _prepareconfig(args, plugins)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/config.py", line 156, in _prepareconfig
    pluginmanager=pluginmanager, args=args)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 745, in __call__
    return self._hookexec(self, self._nonwrappers + self._wrappers, kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 339, in _hookexec
    return self._inner_hookexec(hook, methods, kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 334, in <lambda>
    _MultiCall(methods, kwargs, hook.spec_opts).execute()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 613, in execute
    return _wrapped_call(hook_impl.function(*args), self.execute)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 250, in _wrapped_call
    wrap_controller.send(call_outcome)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/helpconfig.py", line 32, in pytest_cmdline_parse
    config = outcome.get_result()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 279, in get_result
    raise ex[1].with_traceback(ex[2])
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 265, in __init__
    self.result = func()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 614, in execute
    res = hook_impl.function(*args)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/config.py", line 924, in pytest_cmdline_parse
    self.parse(args)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/config.py", line 1082, in parse
    self._preparse(args, addopts=addopts)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/config.py", line 1044, in _preparse
    self.pluginmanager.load_setuptools_entrypoints(entrypoint_name)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages/_pytest/vendored_packages/pluggy.py", line 515, in load_setuptools_entrypoints
    "Plugin %r could not be loaded: %s!" % (ep.name, e))
_pytest.vendored_packages.pluggy.PluginValidationError: Plugin 'xdist' could not be loaded: (pytest 3.0.7 (/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.4.6/lib/python3.4/site-packages), Requirement.parse('pytest>=3.6.0'))!

Platform details:

Travis. Python 3.4.

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• Travis environment (Python 3.4)

[oesteban]

could it be that pytest-xdist is now requiring pytest>=3.6.0 but 3.0.7 was found?

[effigies]

Maybe. I don't feel I have the time to dig into this right now. Anybody else is welcome to take it on.