Number of collected items exceeds the number of tests executed in the test summary

[SachdevaS]

Issue/Question

• I am running a test suite where the number of items collected is: "collected 263 items", but the test summary only shows a summary of 220 tests -
  ============= 2 failed, 170 passed, 48 skipped in 796.99 seconds ==============, I am unable to understand what could be the reason behind this that 263 items are collected, but only 220 tests ran? Do the collected items not symbolise the number of tests collected to run?

Pytest version and operating system

• [platform win32 -- Python 3.5.4, pytest-3.5.0, py-1.5.2, pluggy-0.6.0 -- c:\python35\python.exe ] , using windows10

Also if I run with --collect-only, I get collected items 263, but actually only 220 tests are shown in the list.

[pytestbot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #239 (not collect deselected tests), #596 (xdist is not executing tests if their parametrizations were collected in a different order), #1075 (xdist: Different tests were collected), #2464 (Incorrect number of collected items reported when specific class methods are provided), and #3323 (MemoryError from xmlgen for a big number of tests).

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

that's indeed a bit unexpected, if possible please provide a full collect output and full test output
if permissible also include a listing of all involved files, preferably as text formatted tree, but i have no idea if thats easy to do on windows)

[Zac-HD]

Closing due to insufficient information.