Pytest v7.1 fails to initialize on windows

[jacksund]

While the CI is working fine, the test suite is failing to run on windows. The current quick-fix is to downgrade to pytest v7.0, but this issue should be fixed.

Example output of error:

================================================= test session starts =================================================
platform win32 -- Python 3.10.4, pytest-7.1.2, pluggy-1.0.0
django: settings: simmate.configuration.django.settings_test (from ini)
rootdir: C:\Users\jacks\Documents\GitHub\simmate, configfile: pyproject.toml
plugins: django-4.5.2, forked-1.4.0, mock-3.7.0, xdist-2.5.0
collected 0 items / 1 error

======================================================= ERRORS ========================================================
____________________________________________ ERROR collecting test session ____________________________________________
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\runner.py:338: in from_call
    result: Optional[TResult] = func()
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\runner.py:369: in <lambda>
    call = CallInfo.from_call(lambda: list(collector.collect()), "collect")
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\main.py:723: in collect
    for x in self._collectfile(pkginit):
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\main.py:575: in _collectfile
    ihook = self.gethookproxy(fspath)
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\main.py:539: in gethookproxy
    my_conftestmodules = pm._getconftestmodules(
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\config\__init__.py:575: in _getconftestmodules
    mod = self._importconftest(conftestpath, importmode, rootpath)
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\_pytest\config\__init__.py:620: in _importconftest
    assert mod not in mods
E   AssertionError
================================================== warnings summary ===================================================
..\..\..\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\past\builtins\misc.py:45
  C:\Users\jacks\anaconda3\envs\simmate_dev\lib\site-packages\past\builtins\misc.py:45: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib and slated for removal in Python 3.12; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
    from imp import reload

-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/capture-warnings.html
=============================================== short test summary info ===============================================
ERROR  - AssertionError
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 error during collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
============================================= 1 warning, 1 error in 0.91s =============================================

[jacksund]

This looks to be a common issue occurring in other packages and unique to v7.1

[jacksund]

After uninstalling/reinstalling anaconda and using conda clean this is working again... I changed nothing so maybe this issue was resolved elsewhere...? This looks to be stable in the CI so I'll close this issue with the linked PR for now