What is __multicall__ warning?

[amarao]

I writing an application which relies on pytest as method to perform tests of virtual machines. I wrote a simple plugin to provide VM-related fixtures. It works great, but pytest emits warning:

WI1 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytest_timeout.py:68 'pytest_runtest_protocol' hook uses deprecated __multicall__ argument.

Problem is that I never use __multicall__ and don't really understand what it is. Can you help clarify and fix it?

Actual code is here: https://github.com/serverscom/dibctl/blob/master/dibctl/pytest_runner.py
Stackoverflow question is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43009164/what-is-multicall-argument-and-why-it-is-deprecated

Thanks!

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

the pytest_timeout plugin you use seems to be outdated and using that old hook mechanism, i beleive it should be updated

[amarao]

Thank you. I reported it as issue for Ubuntu Xenial: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pytest-timeout/+bug/1676301

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

thank you for the followup, its good to see people act with care 👍