default pytest version doesn't support pyproject.toml configuration

[howeaj]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: Windows 10
• Poetry version: 1.1.5

Issue

The default pyproject.toml that poetry new creates includes an old version of pytest that is not compatible with pyproject.toml configuration. I'd expect it to give you the same version you'd get if adding it with poetry add.

i.e. the pytest = "^5.2" that it gives you will ignore any config such as

[tool.pytest.ini_options]
log_cli=true
log_level="DEBUG"

Which is quite unhelpful.

I'd assumed poetry would have just given me the latest version of pytest, as it does when running poetry add, and so wasted an hour or so trying to debug this issue, thinking I had done something wrong in configuring poetry.

[pmav99]

poetry/poetry/console/commands/new.py

Lines 65 to 68 in cdfcd14

	if parse_constraint("<3.5").allows_any(python_constraint):
	dev_dependencies["pytest"] = "^4.6"
	if parse_constraint(">=3.5").allows_all(python_constraint):
	dev_dependencies["pytest"] = "^5.2"

[finswimmer]

Hello @pmav99,

we will most likely remove this in a future release completely. See #2768

fin swimmer

[github-actions]

This issue has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.