Merge pull request #3998 from blueyed/logging-del

logging: del item.catch_log_handler only in teardown

changelog/3998.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix issue that prevented some caplog properties (for example ``record_tuples``) from being available when entering the debugger with ``--pdb``.

src/_pytest/logging.py

@@ -445,8 +445,8 @@ def _runtest_for(self, item, when):
             try:
                 yield  # run test
             finally:
-                del item.catch_log_handler
                 if when == "teardown":
+                    del item.catch_log_handler
                     del item.catch_log_handlers
 
             if self.print_logs:

testing/test_pdb.py

@@ -397,6 +397,24 @@ def test_1(capsys):
         child.read()
         self.flush(child)
 
+    def test_pdb_with_caplog_on_pdb_invocation(self, testdir):
+        p1 = testdir.makepyfile(
+            """
+            def test_1(capsys, caplog):
+                import logging
+                logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("some_warning")
+                assert 0
+        """
+        )
+        child = testdir.spawn_pytest("--pdb %s" % str(p1))
+        child.send("caplog.record_tuples\n")
+        child.expect_exact(
+            "[('test_pdb_with_caplog_on_pdb_invocation', 30, 'some_warning')]"
+        )
+        child.sendeof()
+        child.read()
+        self.flush(child)
+
     def test_set_trace_capturing_afterwards(self, testdir):
         p1 = testdir.makepyfile(
             """